Rich threw me a pointer to this nice way of presenting electoral data.
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/politics/2004_ELECTIONGUIDE_GRAPHIC/Make sure to click on "electoral votes" and then "battlegrounds".
This second and third views are nice static examples of what we're trying to
achieve on an ABM project we're working on where we want to simultaneously
display the influence of an agent's geographic neighborhood and it's
distinct social neighborhood. I'll post an example when ready...
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