How exploring data representation helped me get through election night (read: days)

Like many, I spent the few days following November 3rd obsessively checking my phone and laptop for the latest vote counts and results. So often, that whenever I now type “U” in Google’s search bar, the top automatic suggestion is “US election results”. It’s rather annoying now that I don’t want it, but it illustrates my point.

Stressing over the potential outcome was doing me no good, so I decided to allocate my cognitive resources elsewhere and started thinking about how media outlets…