[OSGeo Africa] Election maps

[Adi Eyal]

On 23 March 2013 21:23, Chris <chris at airphotoafrica.co.za> wrote:

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

I'm not sure that politicians understand statistics but their staff members
surely must. I would be surprised if election campaigns did not incorporate
this type of information at the very least. I created the poster because I
don't think that us regular people understand the lay of the land as well
as they do.


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

I think so - the recent Obama campaign was won on this sort of thing (as
well as clever data mining and other cool stuff).

Adi

>
>
>     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
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