Mandi Cai

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#6818

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Through a Live Elections Dashboard, Darkly: Managing Expectations and Trust in Progressive Vote Counting During the 2024 U.S. Election

During U.S. elections, news outlets publish live dashboards to contextualize vote counting and manage public expectations. This proved challenging in 2020 amid election fraud allegations, sparking conversations about how data journalists might better visualize and explain live vote counting. To address this, we design…

CHI '241st AuthorHonorable MentionInteractive Data Visualization +2

Watching the Election Sausage Get Made: How Data Journalists Visualize the Vote Counting Process in U.S. Elections

Election results in the United States are visualized online in real time by news outlets as vote counting persists over days or weeks. They are a massive public-facing exercise in managing audience understanding of uncertainty in partial data, breaking news web traffic records as the public seeks information about win…

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