[ddj] [School-of-data-announce] Election Data Community Hangout

Thu May 2 12:25:16 UTC 2013

Great link,

Thanks!

Michael

On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 01:22:26PM +0100, Owen Stephens wrote:
> If it's of any interest Warwickshire are making election results available as a Google Fusion table 'live' - more details at http://innovatewarwickshire.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/2013-elections-in-real-time/
> 
> Owen
> 
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> On 2 May 2013, at 13:03, Michael Bauer <michael.bauer at okfn.org> wrote:
> 
> > Today is election day for several UK local councils. Elections are usually
> > reported by using tons of statistics, graphs and metrics. We’ll look into
> > Election data in a Community hangout tomorrow May 3rd 2013 at 2pm-3pm BST. 
> > 
> > We’ll talk about how to obtain data, what you can do with it, ways to
> > visualize it and try to think outside the box. 
> > 
> > 
> > If you want to participate in this community hangout: sign up here:
> > https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/forms/d/1aOIh9vEb4kEpAEnV106EPuRNwbK3vRLFQlZ9KP4juew/viewform
> > 
> > We'll have a google hangout so space is limited to 9 participants (+1
> > facilitator) - If you're happy to facilitate please note in the form and
> > we'll contact you (so we can have more than one call).
> > 
> > Interesting reading along the way:
> > 
> > Getting ward boundries:
> > http://blog.ouseful.info/2013/05/02/shapefiles-for-electoral-wards-covered-by-a-particular-geography/
> > Local Election Factsheet:
> > http://fullfact.org/articles/local_elections_factsheet_may_2013-28903
> > A quick guide to mapping local elections:
> > http://schoolofdata.org/2013/05/02/proving-the-data-a-quick-guide-to-mapping-local-elections/
> > Gregor Aisch German local election visualization:
> > http://nds2013.vis4.net/electionmaps/
> > 
> > See you there!
> > 
> > Michael
> > 
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