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[edit] Opinion polling by state for the United States presidential election, 2008 (Alabama)

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[edit] LDS Maps

The maps you uploaded

look really good. However, I think it would be better if the colours were reversed (blue meaning "a few" and red being "many") which, while opposite of the standard in scientific publications, seems more intuitive. Also, there is currently no source for the information. I would guess you took it from the Wikipedia article, but it would be nice to have that in the images' descriptions. Please let me know what you think. (EhJJ)TALK 13:20, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your input. I've now added the references of the source data to the image pages. These images were created for the Wikipedia article.
I don't think this is of great matter, but I have taken the color scheme into much consideration. I used the color scheme of a rainbow to create these maps. I used the typical way we perceive things using these colors. Traffic flows at greatest speed on green, slows on yellow, and stops at red. So using the rainbow, I used red being values of most few, and blue for the greatest values. I don't mean this as worse or better. Red states are not worse than blue states, they just have fewer.
I don't know what you meant by your suggestion being more intuitive. People have different ways of viewing things like this. If I find a valid reason or consistency of reversing the color scheme then I will do so. If Wikipedia as a whole suggests these colors should be reversed, I will do so.
Dmm1169 (talk) 17:27, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Election maps

It seems overboard and unnecessary to create a new map for every day or so in the election. From now on, I suggest we simply place the image on the base page (e.g., Image:Barack Obama vs. John McCain.PNG). That way, any place it is transcluded will update anyway, and we don't have to worry about having tons of different maps. If anyone wants access to the old data, they can look at the history anyway (I don't see the maps being placed anywhere else). Also, you will notice that on the new maps, I have averaged the last three results for each state, in order to help avoid anomalies in polling data. While this means that any very recent trends won't be hit, more often than not, recent trends are actually just a data anomaly (e.g., the recent poll stating the New York would vote for McCain over Obama, which is just silly). Besides, recent trends are marked out on the article. The Evil Spartan (talk) 22:15, 17 April 2008 (UTC)