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Hello everyone,
I'm working on a personal project that involves creating statistics around live election data. I'm wondering if anyone would be kind enough to give me some feedback on calculating matched-booth swing.
From what I understand, the key to this is to control the sample size of booths throughout the counting process, comparing the previous elections booth results with the current booths that are reporting votes. Ensuring to only compare the same booth from the previous year with the current one.
The calculation I have looks like this:
(Single party votes in 2024 from matched booths/ total votes in 2024 from matched booths - Single party votes in 2021 from matched booths/ total votes in 2022 from matched booths) * 100
Sorry for the poor formatting. Hopefully it's legible. I’ve also attached an image.
My plan is to dynamically update the booths that are factored into the equation throughout the counting process, based on the booths in the current election that are reporting votes.
What does everyone think? Am I on the right track or am I missing something here?
I appreciate any advice here. Thank you!
Hello All! I am currently a graduate student in the Political Analytics program at Columbia. For one of my course projects I have to create, field and analyze survey data. This is a super quick simple survey, and It would be extremely helpful if you could take less than 3 mins of your day to fill this out. I would greatly appreciate it! Thank you!
I tried BigQuery but DML queries aren't allowed in the free version. Do you know any better alternative? There are a ton of them out there and I'm sure there's one but you would save me a tremendous amount of time that I better put into making some cool analysis of political data.
What I'm working on as a start is to join data on international relations, like COW, WTO, etc, manipulate them and join on a common key. I suspect the common key will be countryname or ISO-Code. Not sure yet. I may also need to alter some tables to conform to this convention.
Hi All,
New to the group, but I put together this data-based analysis of the impact of why people vote for candidates, and I would love any feedback you guys would be willing to give! Also open to suggestions for future analyses/articles.
I’d really appreciate if someone could explain how to get donor data for representatives and senators. Who are their biggest donors? Who are the lobbyists that have most influence them? It’s only seems right that this data should be public. I curious about the breakdown.
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Hi ! I got this reading list that I'm looking to expand. I'm looking for books on Internet policy/governance/regulation. I'm particularly interested in case studies of content take down and information control. Thanks for your suggestions!
My current list: Benkler, Yochai (2007). The Wealth of Networks – How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
Castells, Manuel (2009). The Rise of the Network Society: The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture Volume I
Castells, Manuel (2012). Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age
Deibert, Ronald J., Haraszti, Miklos, Palfrey, John G., Rohozinski, Rafal, Zittrain, Jonathon (2010). Access Controlled – The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace
Deibert, Ronald J. (2013). Black Code: Surveillance, Privacy, and the Dark Side of the Internet
DeNardis, Laura (2009). Protocol Politics – The Globalization of Internet Governance
DeNardis, Laura (2011). Opening Standards – The Global Politics of Interoperability
DeNardis, Laura (2014). The global war for Internet governance.
DeNardis, Laura (ed.) (2015). The Turn to Infrastructure in Internet Governance
Lessig, Lawrence (2006). Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace, Version 2.0
MacKinnon, Rebecca (2013). Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom
Mansell, R (2012). Imagining the Internet: Communication, Innovation, and Governance
Mueller, Milton (2002). Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace
Mueller, Milton (2013). Networks and States – The Global Politics of Internet Governance
Mueller, Milton (2017). Will the Internet Fragment?: Sovereignty, Globalization and Cyberspace
Webster, F. (2014). Theories of the Information Society