In 2020, I made a digital exhibit with GIS software and TimelineJS about US Presidential Election Turnout over time. Click this link for the full exhibit.(I can’t embed it here without paying $25 a month.)
Originally, I made the GIF below and conducted a survey asking what people learned about US election turnout from the GIF.
To many, the most shocking moment in the GIF is when the US South transforms dark red during Reconstruction to light pink during the early twentieth century. The GIF illustrates the anti-Democratic project of white supremacy very clearly.
However, not much else pops out of the GIF right away so I created the digital exhibit to interpret the data more directly. Timeline JS is a wonderful technology that allowed me to include the other information like the overall voter turnout, the leading candidates, and other information. On some of the dates, I included information about major changes to the voting rights or social change.
Anthony Stamilio 