Instructions for the first group project and a roster of which students are in which groups (Adobe Acrobat documents).
Electoral targeting
homework assignment,
and data for U.S. presidential elections in the Midwest,
West,
Northeast,
and South
(MS Excel 4.0 spreadsheets), and
MapViewer boundary (.gsb) files for all 50 U.S.
states (68k).
Instructions on how to use Excel for electoral targeting analysis (MS Word 2000).
Electoral targeting data for group projects on Illinois statewide races, and the Texas statewide races (MS Excel 4.0 spreadsheets).MapViewer boundary (.gsb) files for Illinois counties and Texas counties as well as all 50 states are available here.
Instructions for the second group project (Adobe Acrobat).
MapViewer boundary (.gsb) files for media markets in Illinois and Texas are available here.
County-level demographic data from the 2000 Census for Illinois and Texas (MS Excel files), along with explanations of the demographic categories (MS Word file).
Final project data files for California, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
