The document discusses the creation of maps and geographic data visualization. It explains how maps can geocode vote data down to the district level and visualize results based on criteria like the percentage of affected areas. Maps are also overlaid with additional data layers showing election results correlated with ethnic groups in Afghanistan. The document promotes TileMill as a tool for full-featured map design that is powered by open source technology.
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10. The system geo codes votes down the the district level. The political boundaries for this map covered 400 districts.
Density point visualization shows results based on the Highlighted stations criteria, in this case % of stations effected.
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11. Complex analysis: This Afghan ethnic distribution base layer is overlaid with districts won by Karzai (red dots) and
Abdullah (green dots). Dot size indicates the number of votes. Ethnic data is digitized from the Soviet Atlas Narodov Mira
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