Mumbai, India, December 11 2018: Team Gramener was ready on Republic TV to give Indian TV audience a taste of visual data journalism. Right when the vote count started to pour in from the regions of Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Mizoram, and Rajasthan, Gramener’s live election data dashboard started visualizing the updates, every minute. It was a nail-biting experience on election result day.
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Simple. Visual data journalism is an interactive method of representing data using graphics such as maps charts and other visualizations to weave stories around the data. Visual data journalism is spreading internationally giving media houses and TV audience a chance to decode elections with simple visual insights. Regardless of how data literate the audience is stories with data aids in hiccup-less consumption. Gramener’s visual graphics promisingly delivered the fastest election number with crystal clear insights wrapped in engaging narratives and stories.
No election enthusiast would want to settle on one story. Visual Data Journalism is enriched with tremendously insightful stories coming out every second with every vote count, keeping the viewers engaged and interpreting for hours. Gramener tried to link each story from a single data source. To give the audience an experience worth remembering there is tactful effort backstage implementing the ideation followed by using various technology tools and techniques.
A team of 10 potential members from Gramener family including designers, coders, developers, and testers worked with Republic World Team to execute fastest election results and insights. We Thank Arnab Goswami, the MD of Republic TV, and his team for yet another successful collaboration. Gramener assisted Republic TV earlier during the Karnataka and Gujarat State Elections 2017.
We built different types of data visualization specifically for showcasing election data on the screen. Below is the list of visual applications. We’ve updated this blog with the new versions of the election data visualizations we have used. The different years or state names resemble their usage in various election periods.
Compass enables real-time tracking of the party performance and swing seats. Observe the change in seats from one party to the other with respect to time shift. It highlight the party that has been leading the previous three assembly polls in the seat.
The strike rate gave a comparison of the party performance with respect to the number of seats it is leading Vs the number of seats it is contesting for.
The Chord offered a visual analysis of seats gained and lost by the parties in the current elections Vs the previous elections. It showed a real-time transfer of seats from one party to the other.
The color map is the combination of a pie view and a map view breaking down the colorful parties in elections with region wise filters. Hovering on the colorful dots representing political parties highlights the seat name.
The Voter Matrix presents a timeline of Leads Vs eventual vote share in a visual format. It helped to track how the constituencies have gained or lost the seats during the election counting day with respect to time shift.
Last but not the least and one of the most exciting storyboard, it is a post result representation of winners and runner-ups, party-wise across seats. It is a perfect end to the nail-biting-close-fight scenarios from the election counting day.
This blog was updated with new information on 25th June 2020.
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