Peter Lewis (Chairman of Progressive Insurance) saw the unique benefit of PIIM‘s visualization methodologies and how they could support K-12 and higher education. Through a generous private grant from Mr. Lewis PIIM began work on its Public Opinion Tool.

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Through an intensive coordination with The New School for Social Research PIIM conducted analysis and gathered data from all US elections from 1776 to 2004 to identify the key issues surrounding each election and how those issues affected the election’s outcome. This research was utilized to develop an interactive, web-based application with the following features and functionality:

• Ability to visualize how each state voted in each US election from 1776 to 2004
• Ability to view how election outcomes may have changed if voters had voted simply based on issues instead of candidates
• Ability to weight and re-weight electoral votes to see the affect voters and electoral voting has on election outcome
• Integration of multiple visualization mechanisms to view election results in geographic, bar and pie chart, and temporal manners
• In-depth, week-by-week analysis of primary and election results in the months preceding the 2004 election.

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