Tag: Election
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#365daysofpolitics day 22: data!
Finally, I think I got the seats data for the 2015 general election sorted out! I worked on it yesterday so tonight (day 23) I need to test it and make sure it’s validating properly. Also, I had a chance encounter with a friend and had a chat about this little experiment of mine 🙂 as well as…
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#365daysofpolitics day 13: data wrangling
I’ve started work today on a script to automatically generated the seats data needed for the election data project. With that done, future elections should be easier to put together.
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#365daysofpolitics day 8: fielding candidates
A bit more manifesto wrangling today, including merging another successful proposal in. Then I’ve spent some of my evening doing my job as Tech officer for Something New. We have two new candidates standing in forthcoming elections – Lindsey Garrett for London Mayor and Jessie Macneil-Brown in Tower Hamlets Stepney Ward – so I’ve been arranging some technical…
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#365daysofpolitics day 6: pleading
I’ve just finished off a bunch of work to the 2015 election stats project I’ve been working on. Thanks to contributions from others, it looks like we now have votes for all constituencies and the validation is passing – woohoo! There’s some next steps, which I’ve created issues for. Feel free to help me out…
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#365daysofpolitics day 2: independent, machine-readable election stats
Having stayed up all night to watch the election (depressing as it was) I took the opportunity to collate the general election results. The project gives us an open data source showing the results for each constituency, and the seats. It’s not quite finished, and I plan to add JSON as well as CSV versions…
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Why I’m voting Green, and why you should definitely vote today.
After using the excellent Vote Match website, I reviewed my answers and the comparisons to the policies of the various political parties and decided that I agreed with it’s assessment that I should vote for the Green Party. There are a few things I do disagree with the Greens on, such as their stance on Nuclear…