https://www.rostrum.blog/tags/patchwork/ Recent content in Patchwork on rostrum.blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Sat, 21 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/11/21/president-tilegram/ Sat, 21 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/11/21/president-tilegram/ tl;dr The {tilegramsR} package for R contains a geospatial object for mapping the US electoral college. I amended it for states that use the congressional district method and generated a minimalist map of the results for the 2020 US presidential election.1 Send a cartogram It’s usually best to scale subnational divisions by voter count when visualising election results. This is because election outcomes are decided by people, not land area.