OMG look = I made a map with the entire date range, excluding Zogby Interactive and Strategic Vision and IVR-Automated Phone polls, with no smoothing, only using Obama/McCain, standard percentile range, and no grid showing![/url] - The amount of control is awesome, and you can get a URL for linking.
A little over two years ago, we launched Pollster.com with a mission of providing a complete compilation of poll results, expert analysis and graphical tools to help readers make sense of polling data. Today, after two long years of development, our commitment to interactive graphical tools takes a quantum leap.
At a moment when the political world is swimming in a flood of polling data, we are pleased to announce a new, fully interactive Flash chart application that will plot all of the poll charts here on Pollster.com. The new charts allow you to:
* Select or limit the polls used to draw trend lines and calculate polling estimates with the "filter" tool. If you don't like a particular pollster, just un-click and take them out (yes...really).
* Toggle between the display of the default trend line and alternatives that are more or less sensitive using the "smoothing" tool -- these are essentially the same as the "steady blue" and "ready red" trend lines often used by Charles Franklin.
* Hold your mouse over any data point to display details about each the poll.
* Click the mouse on any data point to "connect the dots" between all polls fielded by that pollster.
* Modify the date range (x-axis) and percentage range (y-axis) by clicking on either axis directly or with forms found on the "tools" menu.
* Select the candidates you want to see displayed on the chart with the "choices" tool .
* Toggle the display of data points, trend lines and grid lines on or off with the "plot" tools.
* Copy the code necessary to bookmark your customized chart or share it via email with the "URL" tool.
* Get the code necessary to place a small version of the customized chart on your own blog or web site with the "Embed" tool.
As of this posting, we have converted our charts for Ohio, Colorado, Virginia , Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Nevada, Minnesota and the National Trend to the new chart, and we should have most of the presidential charts converted over the course of the day. Although we hope you will dive right in and try these new features, we have also created a quick video guided tour of some of the most important features.
