November 05, 2008
What one word described your state of mind on Election Day? The data wizards at the New York Times have a mesmerizing interactive application up that offers a dynamic picture of its readers’ emotional state as they answered that question yesterday, which you can slice and dice by Obama supporters vs McCain supporters. There’s not a lot of explanation on the site as to how it works, but I assume the larger words were the more popular ones. Here’s the view from 1:00am last night: