Data is fun [politics]

"Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)" (rduncan5678) 11/05/2020 at 20:46 • Filed to: None

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Politics tag because this is election data but I have absolutely no interest in talking points right now. Idk why counting votes is somehow politically charged but simply following the data as it comes in without bias from either side is fascinating to me. That 3500 differential in Georgia is craziness. I keep hitting refresh because I’m curious to see the final countdown.

https://alex.github.io/nyt-2020-election-scraper/battleground-state-changes.html

Here’s another sunset to make up for reminding you this shit is still going.

flatisflat > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) 11/05/2020 at 21:01

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Nearly 3000 votes counted in a 3-minute window and the margin remains exactly the same....?  Hrrrmmmm....(in a couple ways)

Nothing > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) 11/05/2020 at 21:02

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I like data! Thanks for posting that.

Dusty Ventures > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) 11/05/2020 at 21:10

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Because I haven’t been obsessively refreshing vote updates enough as it is.

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > flatisflat 11/05/2020 at 21:14

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I imagine this is multiple sources of raw data. Certainly needs some interpretation before presenting. But interpretation can add bias. 

WilliamsSW > flatisflat 11/05/2020 at 21:18

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They’re adding to the count of uncounted ballots - not counting votes.  Note that the uncounted number goes up not down. 

perryair52 > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) 11/05/2020 at 21:20

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this is awesome and i wish i’d stumbled upon this earlier myself!

subexpression > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) 11/05/2020 at 21:24

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I find it incredibly depressing that I probably have a pretty good handle on how counting became politically charged. I say i gnorance is bliss on that one.

I’m not really a data person, but at one time I worked in buzzwordy big data systems . Not this kind of data , it was marketing-type stuff, and I just ran the system and didn’t care about what data was in it. But the teams who used the system spent all day in spreadsheets and other analysis tools to direct the business and make us money . We even had a whole team just for statistics (they used a different system, not mine). The whole reason I got out of it wasn’t that I didn’t like big data, it was that the systems to handle it were so shitty that I couldn’t stand being on the hook for keeping them working anymore.

flatisflat > WilliamsSW 11/05/2020 at 22:00

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Aaahhhhhhhhh, indeed.  Thanks  :)  

WilliamsSW > flatisflat 11/05/2020 at 22:02

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Took me a couple looks at it, too. Keep in mind that’s not anything official, either. He’s gathering data somehow. 

Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) 11/05/2020 at 22:03

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C19 and its politicisation really added an excitement factor to the vote counting.

For Sweden > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) 11/05/2020 at 22:05

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What if my talking point is being mad that the card counters in Nevada don’t know how to count ballots?

For Sweden > Dusty Ventures 11/05/2020 at 22:05

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If you stop refreshing your preferred candidates will lose

Dusty Ventures > For Sweden 11/05/2020 at 22:13

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MiniGTI - now with XJ6 > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) 11/06/2020 at 00:10

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Very interesting, fun with data as you say. Thanks for posting.