The People's Cube - Political Satire

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Everyone knows ‒ I mean here, in Yurop (where we are cultured, progressive people) ‒ that the Election of November 8th was a deplorable, faked and hacked, "victory" of the Hawk of Crude Hateful Populism over the Dove of Nuanced Hopeful Globalism-Internationalism.

Yet another drammmatic depiction of the result of Kremlin hackery combined with Trumpian chutzpah appeared recently :





That imagery, in full detail, appeared mid-December here, created by Alex Egoshin (appears to live in Sochi).
It delightfully augments Comrade Director's Glorious Math (There are 3,141 counties...).
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Tech :
Maps were created using IDW (Inverse distance weighted) technique in ArcGIS, says Alex E.
(ArcGIS a software-tool, GIS = Geographic Information System).

IDW (not highly complex, but anyway hard Math) is an interpolation method.
Something like : on every polling place, put a smooth bell with (very) steep slopes and of height proportional to the number of (valid) ballots counted there. If two such bell-surfaces overlap (on the fringes), weld the fringes by some "averaging" into a smooth surface. That's it.
The whole area of America covered with a surface, and thousands upon thousands of bell-shaped spikes on it.

Now, to get the maps above :
For Trump, put a red bell-surface only on polling places where ≥51% ballots were "for Trump".
Same with Clinton : a blue bell, wherever ≥51% ballots were "for Clinton".
The resulting red surface (red hills, peaks, plateaus, gentle slopes, down to blots on "level zero" - lakes, seas, bays, ponds) is Terra Trumpia.
Same with the blue surface - Terra Clintonia. Turns out, an archipelago.


IDW in Xclopedias : (related to the Infogalactic/Everipedia/DuckDuckGo discussion started here)
Googling (pointedly) for "Inverse distance weighted", you get :
(other search engines will answer differently, of course)

Infogalactic : Geostatistics → IDW.
Everipedia : Multivariate interpolation → IDW.
DuckDuckGo : no idea (basically, points to WPedia).
Wikipedia : IDW.

All the three above present the same (pretty good) IDW-article.
BUT (scratching head...) :
Infogalactic can't render Math, Everipedia can't show pics, yet Wikipedia can both. hmmm...

(uh, don't get me wrong - not a pean for WPedia, just "the others" have more of growing pains ; WPedia stunk "since ever" in "politically relevant" corners ; prominent case : years-long "Kulturkampf" around "Climate Science".)

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Looked yesterday into vividmaps and, wow :


First blitz : huh, looks like out of The Cube!
Next glance : heh, it is out of The Cube! _____(lower right-hand corner! and full glory here)

Goes back to Comrade Vladimir_Scratchanitch's post where he pointed to Stereotypes-Mapping and particularly to World-as-seen-by-Americans.

Then, Comrade Director commented and followed. That was September 2010.
(In the meantime, the attribute Sexy Spies got quite a new, uh, hue & aroma.)

And now, vividmaps.
What a country - notability™ on each corner!

Beautiful work. Thanks for sharing comrade! I think somehting like that for Europe might look interesting too (as in: the recent Austrian elections, where the results countryside versus cities were very skewed).

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While at the crossroad of Maps and Nov. 8th :

A very reasonable approach to red/blue/purple depiction by a physicist of Univ. of Michigan, via "deforming" the basic map of the U. S. states to reflect their "size by population".
It's here, presented also - with concise comments - in BI.

And three excellent maps, by a Prof. of Operational Research from Princeton :

The map No 1 provides an instant comparison 2016 vs. 2012 (move the mouse in/out the map).
The map No 2, a 3D view, correlates visually with the "Trumpland vs. Clinton Archipelago" depiction, and helps to grasp the "Archipelago" phenomenon.
The map No 3 map shows the "purple" characteristic changing over time from 1960 to 2016.

Genosse Dummkopf -

Thank you for finding the map, I have forgotten all about it! Here it is, in full size. But there have been other maps we posted in the past, made by us and others.

[img]/images/Europe_Map_Democrats.png[/img]

[img]/images/various_uploads/EUrope_Muslim_Map.gif[/img]

[img]/images/Europe_2015.jpg[/img]

[img]/images/Absolut_Map_Europe_600.jpg[/img]

[img]/images/Map_South_Rises_Upside_Down.jpg[/img]

[img]/images/ISIS_Map_Coexist.png[/img]

[img]/images/Obama_Isis_Map.jpg[/img]

[img]/images/Kidnapistan_Map.png[/img]

[img]/images/War_Map_Indiana_Arkansas.jpg[/img]

[img]/images/various_uploads/Harper_Revisionist_Israel_Map.jpg[/img]

[img]/images/MAP_US_GDP_world_countries.png[/img]

[img]/images/Caliphate_Map_Earth_on_Elephants.jpg[/img]

[img]/images/various_uploads/Butt_Map.jpg[/img]

Red Square wrote:... other maps we posted in the past ...

in top-down order :

Map-2 : truly scary!
Map-3 : what, Sweden? SWEDEN?? Khilafa al-Suediyyah!
Map-6 : West-2000 starts to grasp the dichotomy laid out ‒ unmistakably and "once for all" ‒ in the Book of LIES! : black = Dar al-Islam (abode of Islam), white = Dar al-Harb (abode of War) ; along with the ‒ nonnegotiable ‒ order : extend the black realm over the entire globe.

And the last two Maps ‒ sweet (though for different reasons).

Next : near by chance (yet related to all that mapping here), stumbled over a rich Collection of satirical maps of Europe (vividmaps again!), mainly from late 19th and early 20th century, in that characteristic style, like here :
(if interested in details ‒ go to vividmaps, the pics there are twice or trice as big.)

Minitrue wrote:... recent Austrian elections, where the results countryside versus cities were very skewed ...

Cowabunga! Not a map, but bar graphs for Austria.
It's the status in April 2016, 3 days before voting (with 6 candidates on the ballot).
(a run-off followed 4 weeks later - was annulled, with re-vote in Dec. 2016.)

Here juicy data, only for the two leading men - green is the Green one, blue is the "Trumpian" :

by Education :


by Profession :


by Chromosomes (F/M) and Age : __(cheeky Austrians, no Gender-sensitivity whatsoever)