<div>On 23 March 2013 21:23, Chris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chris@airphotoafrica.co.za" target="_blank">chris@airphotoafrica.co.za</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I wonder if any politicians are statisticians<br>
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IF any understand attributes and spatial statistics ? ( and forecasting )<br></blockquote><div><br></div>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.<br>
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Could be a gold mine for someone with the necessary knowledge and skills<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think so - the recent Obama campaign was won on this sort of thing (as well as clever data mining and other cool stuff).</div>
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On 23 Mar 2013 at 20:38, Adi Eyal wrote:<br>
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> Thanks Tim<br>
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> Yup - would you believe that the IEC publishes all their data<br>
> in gobsmacking detail? Have a look here: <a href="http://www.elections.org.za" target="_blank">http://www.elections.org.za</a>.<br>
> You'll find the results for all the elections that have taken place over<br>
> the past two decades or so, down to the voting station. I got the<br>
> shapefiles from <a href="http://www.demarcation.gov.za" target="_blank">www.demarcation.gov.za</a>.<br>
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> Adi<br>
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> On 23 March 2013 20:35, Tim Sutton <<a href="mailto:tim@linfiniti.com">tim@linfiniti.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> > Hi Adi<br>
> ><br>
> > On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Adi Eyal <<a href="mailto:adi@burgercom.co.za">adi@burgercom.co.za</a>> wrote:<br>
> > > Hi All<br>
> > ><br>
> > > I've been fiddling around the election data from the last municipal<br>
> > > elections and I've put together a graphic showing which wards were<br>
> > contested<br>
> > > and which are strongholds. I defined contested as there being a less<br>
> > > than 10% difference in vote counts between the first and second place<br>
> > > winners.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > I'm by no means a cartographer and this is one of my first projects so<br>
> > > I<br>
> > was<br>
> > > hoping for comments about how one might improve the maps. I guess the<br>
> > > one problem is that even though you know that a ward is contested, you<br>
> > > don't know by how much. Also (and i'm not sure this is important) you<br>
> > > don't<br>
> > know<br>
> > > from the map what the individual wards are - only the municipality<br>
> > > they<br>
> > are<br>
> > > in. Finally, I don't know where most of these municipalities are<br>
> > situated so<br>
> > > perhaps so sort of contextual map showing them in relation to the rest<br>
> > > of the country might be useful. Of course all of these things are<br>
> > > possible<br>
> > but<br>
> > > might not be easy to achieve while still maintaining an uncluttered<br>
> > design.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Any advice would be appreciated. The small version of the image can be<br>
> > found<br>
> > > here: <a href="http://za.okfn.org/2013/03/23/battle-for-local-municipalities/" target="_blank">http://za.okfn.org/2013/03/23/battle-for-local-municipalities/</a>.<br>
> > The<br>
> > > complete poster is also available as pdf linked to on the site.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Hopefully this sort of question is not frowned upon in this forum (if<br>
> > > it helps, everything here was produced with open source tools :)).<br>
> > ><br>
> ><br>
> > Great project!<br>
> ><br>
> > Is the source data you used available somewhere publicly? If so can you<br>
> > provide a link to it?<br>
> ><br>
> > Regards<br>
> ><br>
> > Tim<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > > Thanks<br>
> > > Adi<br>
> > ><br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Adi Eyal<br>Data Specialist<br>phone: +27 78 014 2469<br>skype: adieyalcas<br>linkedin: <a href="http://za.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Adi/Eyal" target="_blank">http://za.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Adi/Eyal</a><br>
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