How The Washington Post Created Tools to Cover Elections in 2020

In order to accurately cover an election pivotal to the country’s history, The Washington Post spent a year testing an election mapping tool and built a lead locator. Here’s how they did it.

By Lilly Milman · January 7, 2021 · 1 min read

It was raining buckets when Jeremy Bowers and Nicholas Diakopoulos met at Big Bear Cafe in Washington D.C. for lunch to discuss a potential partnership between The Washington Post and Northwestern University. Initially, Diakopoulos, a professor at Northwestern and the director…

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