About Decision Labs

What This Is

Decision Labs is an open-source, ad-free platform for interactive U.S. electoral maps, historical election data, polling aggregation, and race ratings. It's built for transparency and data portability — every view has an export button, every algorithm is published, and the entire codebase is MIT-licensed.

What This Isn't

  • A forecasting model — we aggregate data, we don't predict outcomes
  • A news organization — we surface data, not opinions
  • An ad-supported platform — no tracking, no cookies, no paywalls

Data Sources

All data comes from public, freely licensed sources:

MIT Election Data + Science Lab (MEDSL)

Presidential, Senate, House, and Governor results 1976–2024. State-level, county-level (2000+), and precinct-level (2016+). CC-BY license.

Federal Election Commission (FEC)

Official certified presidential results and campaign finance data. Public domain.

U.S. Census Bureau

State population, apportionment data, and electoral vote allocations. Public domain.

Silver Bulletin

Pollster quality ratings, updated for 2026. Free for any purpose with attribution.

FiveThirtyEight Archive

Historical polling data and pollster ratings (frozen at early 2025 after shutdown).

Technology

Built with Next.js, React, TypeScript, D3.js, and Tailwind CSS. Data pipeline in Python. Deployed on Vercel.

License

MIT License. Use the data, fork the code, build on it. Attribution appreciated but not required.