[OSGeo Africa] Election maps

[Chris]

    I wonder if any politicians are statisticians
    and
    IF any understand attributes and spatial statistics ? ( and forecasting )

    Could be a gold mine for someone with the necessary knowledge and skills


    CM



On 23 Mar 2013 at 20:38, Adi Eyal wrote:

> Thanks Tim
 
> Yup - would you believe that the IEC publishes all their data
> in gobsmacking detail? Have a look here: http://www.elections.org.za.
> You'll find the results for all the elections that have taken place over
> the past two decades or so, down to the voting station. I got the
> shapefiles from www.demarcation.gov.za.
 
> Adi


 
> On 23 March 2013 20:35, Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Adi
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Adi Eyal <adi at burgercom.co.za> wrote:
> > > Hi All
> > >
> > > I've been fiddling around the election data from the last municipal
> > > elections and I've put together a graphic showing which wards were
> > contested
> > > and which are strongholds. I defined contested as there being a less
> > > than 10% difference in vote counts between the first and second place
> > > winners.
> > >
> > > I'm by no means a cartographer and this is one of my first projects so
> > > I
> > was
> > > hoping for comments about how one might improve the maps. I guess the
> > > one problem is that even though you know that a ward is contested, you
> > > don't know by how much. Also (and i'm not sure this is important) you
> > > don't
> > know
> > > from the map what the individual wards are - only the municipality
> > > they
> > are
> > > in. Finally, I don't know where most of these municipalities are
> > situated so
> > > perhaps so sort of contextual map showing them in relation to the rest
> > > of the country might be useful. Of course all of these things are
> > > possible
> > but
> > > might not be easy to achieve while still maintaining an uncluttered
> > design.
> > >
> > > Any advice would be appreciated. The small version of the image can be
> > found
> > > here: http://za.okfn.org/2013/03/23/battle-for-local-municipalities/.
> > The
> > > complete poster is also available as pdf linked to on the site.
> > >
> > > Hopefully this sort of question is not frowned upon in this forum (if
> > > it helps, everything here was produced with open source tools :)).
> > >
> >
> > Great project!
> >
> > Is the source data you used available somewhere publicly? If so can you
> > provide a link to it?
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Tim
> >
> >
> > > Thanks
> > > Adi
> > >
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> Adi Eyal
> Data Specialist
> phone: +27 78 014 2469
> skype: adieyalcas
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