Today (6/22/2016)'s Tableau Viz of the Day presents an overview of the USA presidential election results from 1916 to 2012. This is the 2nd #VOTD in last few days following Matt Chambers's fantastic small multiple design on the same topic, to which I did some tweak to add visual tooltips.
Today's viz is very well designed based on heat maps. Especially, the author Jacob Olsufka has put in great effort in designing the tooltips with various colors, strings, conditional calculations etc. I appreciate deeply how much he cared about using tooltips to convey key information.
The tooltips have a few important numbers about the candidates of democrats, republicans and independents. Here we can further create visualizations for them. Based on an old trick, here is what I got:
It is simple and effective. Click the image to go to the interactive workbook.


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