A December of Open Sourcing

I’ve been a little lazy about pushing my resources online (and doing all the necessary best practices to make that work).

But since I publish code in my posts, it would be nice if I gave you the data to actually recreate it. I’m going to spend December cleaning up my files, and pushing as much as possible to github.

I’m not going to promise that everything will be organized enough to run out the box–I don’t think that’s worth anyone’s time–but I will try to make sure that my core datasets (“df_major”, “div_cats”, etc) are posted somewhere so you can download them.

Today, I’m doing the first batch of that. I’ve published my core, cleaned election files to the Sixty-Six Wards Data repository. There, you will find all of my *crosswalked* election results, meaning the historic results mapped to present-day boundaries. (See my post about how I do that.)

In the upcoming weeks, I’ll work on publishing the Ward Portal, the Needle, and updating the Turnout Tracker repo. Stay tuned!

Follow Election Day with Sixty-Six Wards

Tuesday, November 5th is Election Day. Here are the things I’m doing, and how you can follow along.

The Turnout Tracker

The Turnout Tracker is back for a *fourth* election. Here’s how you can help with citizen science!

1. Vote. (And when you do, get your Voter Number.)

2. Share your Voter Number to
bit.ly/sixtysixturnout

3. Follow along live at
jtannen.github.io/turnout_tracker_philadelphia.html

The estimate is better the more people participate. Tell your friends!

Sixty-Six Wards After Dark: The Election Needle

Once the polls close, I’ll be processing the live results and projecting the final outcomes at
https://jtannen.github.io/election_needle.html

Follow along!