1. twitter.com/ericg "Afghanistan is committed to end the culture of impunity and violation of law and bring to justice those involved in spreading corruption and abuse of public property" - President Hamid Karzai , November 19th, 2009 photo via cnn
5. The system geo codes votes down the the district level. The political boundaries for this map covered 400 districts. Density point visualization shows results based on the Highlighted stations criteria, in this case % of stations effected.
6. Complex analysis: This Afghan ethnic distribution base layer is overlaid with districts won by Karzai (red dots) and Abdullah (green dots). Dot size indicates the number of votes. Ethnic data is digitized from the Soviet Atlas Narodov Mira
7. Interacting with the data: you can quickly drill down to any region, as the map zooms.