Roll up your sleeves. NBC’s updated ‘Big Board’ just made election results a whole lot easier to und

Election night is like the Super Bowl for political reporters, but also for data visualizations—the charts, maps, and graphics that track the road to 270 electoral votes and contextualize how counties, congressional districts, and states have historically voted. This year, NBC has simplified these visuals even further thanks to a redesign of its Big Board, the giant touchscreen that correspondent Steve Kornacki (who earned the nickname “chart-throb” during the 2020 election) and his...