Also, one of the things that I had issues with dealing with RI, is that it is way easy to get "City" / "Township" data, but trying to obtain data drilled down to individual precincts is extremely difficult.... It appears to be a major issue in particular in New England, but obviously if we can't drill down into extensive detail in a place like Providence, for example, it's going to be much harder to analyze RI, other than going through a "City based format", which inherently loses granularity, especially when trying to examine voting swings among various Social-Demographic populations.
https://decisiondeskhq.com/data-dives/creating-a-national-precinct-map/