From concept to sketch to software: Building a new way to visualize votes… mmm, environminty!

Ryan Mark and I built enviroVOTE to help people visualize the environmental impact of the 2008 elections. We designed it in two evenings and made it real in a three-and-a-half-day long bender of data crunching and code.
This is the story of that time.

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Sunday evening, 26 October: the concept
The idea struck [...]