2020
El Salvadors presidential results
Category: Best visualization (small and large newsrooms)
Country/area: El Salvador
Organisation: El Diario de Hoy
Organisation size: Big
Publication date: 2 Nov 2019
Credit: Carlos Palomo
Project description:
The elaborated visualization allows you to see the results, municipality by municipality, on which political party won in the presidential elections of the year 2019. You also have a search engine that facilitates the comparison of the results of the year 2019 with the results of the last presidential election of the year 2014.
Impact reached:
Techniques/technologies used:
Las herramientas usadas fueron la librería D3.js y Jquery. Para el buscador, se hizo uso de javascript junto a Jquery y tecnología AJAX.
What was the hardest part of this project?
The most difficult part was to obtain the data of the electoral registry of the electoral authority in El Salvador, for which there was a need to use a tool to scraping the data contained in the disclosure portals of the respective authority.
What can others learn from this project?
Uno de los aprendizajes es la posibilidad de usar mapas para dar un vistazo rápido sobre los resultados electorales, acompañados de un buscador para profundizar más en los datos.
