Tuesday, December 22, 2020

"How the Wall Street Journal visualized the 2020 election results"

How the Wall Street Journal visualized the 2020 election results

Tools mentioned:
  • d3: "We use a lot of D3, it seems to be a pretty standard thing in our world."
  • React: "Typically, I guess the landscape is very heavy with JavaScript nowadays, specifically with React as a front-end library. We’ve leveraged a lot of that with the work that we did here and it helped us make components that were easily put anywhere for us."
  • Next.js: "I’ll also mention how important automation is for what we do. We were using a technology called Next.js to generate all of our election pages, and we were able to very easily create multiple modules based on this technology."