A grumpy Gus on Twitter (of course) once asked Bellevue-area Councilmember Dave Rosenberg how and why he was always making maps after elections, cynically supposing there was some kind of dark art or dark money behind his efforts. “I just like maps,” Rosenberg replied. And thank goodness. There are lots of ways to crunch and visualize data these days, but Rosenberg almost always presents results by council district rather than voting precinct, making the geography granular enough to be interesting, but large enough to be comprehensible. (Quick, name your precinct number. No, that’s not it.) Want to know which council districts went for Bernie and Trump in the primaries? Rosenberg’s got it. Want to know where turnout is up? He’s got it. He just likes maps. And so do we. J.R. LIND
