Presidential poll tracker
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A look at the approval ratings of all presidents back to Truman according to Gallup polling data. Development time was about a month on and off with other projects. Our news producer, Joshua Hatch, approached me about the idea of creating a polling tracker that would allow us to not only track the polls of President Obama, but also of all other presidents for which polling data is available. We also wanted to juxtapose significant historical events with the polling data to add some additional context.
Written in ActionScript 3, initially powered by XML, now running on Django via an Amazon EC2 instance.
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USA Today Launches Innovative Presidential Approval Tracker, Innovate Interactivity →
A look at the approval ratings of all presidents back to Truman according to Gallup polling data. Development time was about a month on and off with other projects. Our news producer, Joshua Hatch, approached me about the idea of creating a polling tracker that would allow us to not only track the polls of President Obama, but also of all other presidents for which polling data is available. We also wanted to juxtapose significant historical events with the polling data to add some additional context.
Written in ActionScript 3, initially powered by XML, now running on Django via an Amazon EC2 instance.
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USA Today Launches Innovative Presidential Approval Tracker, Innovate Interactivity →