A Multi-perspective Narrative-Based Geovisualization Dashboard for the 2020 US Presidential Election

Abstract

In this paper, we design and implement a map dashboard that combines spatio-temporal visualization and interactive narrative to comprehensively illustrate the 2020 US presidential election. Specifically, our dashboard takes campaign rallies and major events as narrative clues and integrates multi-perspective factors (e.g., the spatial spread of COVID-19, social distancing adherence, poll results) for visualization and statistical analysis. Compared with traditional methods and products, our integrated multi-perspective solution better balances the narrative property and the geovisualization property of a dashboard, making it suitable for illustrating social or political events that happened on a large geographic scale. The result shows that our narrative-based geovisualization dashboard may be used for demonstrating and associating multiple factors with partisanship and has the potential to help users explore the interaction between policies controlling COVID-19, social distancing, and partisanship across the country during the 2020 US presidential election.