The Candidate Match Game
My friend Rodrigot sent me a link to USA Today’s ‘Candidate Match Game’
A very informative, fun, data visualization application, with a rather high data density in a friendly interface. Totally unpretensious, as far as I can see. Perhaps the rectangles that make up the vertical bars could be a bit easier to hover with the mouse, but otherwise I’d say there’s no problem whatsoever with it.
And serves as well as a good example of use of Flash in a situation in which other technologies—notably JavaScript—could be cumbersome and not achieve the same results.
It may not make any difference what my results are, since I’m from Brazil (even though the US presidential elections affects people everywhere in the globe), but I was very satisfied to see to which candidate I’m most ideologically aligned with.
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