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MIT launches massive election data trove, ranks US election efficiency

Posted by anti
Tags: politics, elections, mit, usa, data, efficiency, author.adam hardy, source.civicsnation
https://www.civicsnation.org/2018/08/14/mit-us-election-efficiency/

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Adam Hardy
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Aug 15 2018
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    anti
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    There's a lot of interesting data that is beautifully visualized in MIT's tool. Here's a sample of one page covering the state of New York: https://elections.mit.edu/#state-NY Click around. It's...

    There's a lot of interesting data that is beautifully visualized in MIT's tool.

    Here's a sample of one page covering the state of New York: https://elections.mit.edu/#state-NY

    Click around. It's impressive.

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    1. [3]
      neu
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      It really is an impressive site. Any idea if this includes primary elections?

      It really is an impressive site. Any idea if this includes primary elections?

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      1. [2]
        anti
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        Here's a link to the methodology: https://elections.mit.edu/2016-epi-methodology.pdf Doesn't appear so. I don't think primary data would be as easily accessible as official election data. Though,...

        Here's a link to the methodology: https://elections.mit.edu/2016-epi-methodology.pdf

        Doesn't appear so. I don't think primary data would be as easily accessible as official election data. Though, I think they may have used some of the information in their ranking.

        On the description of the site (https://elections.mit.edu/) they say:

        The index presented here is based on on the U.S. presidential and mid-term elections ranging from 2008–2016.

        As an side, the source code and data is here: https://github.com/MEDSL/elections-performance-index

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        1. neu
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          Yeah, I saw that it included midterms. I was really curious to see how what turnouts were like from the primaries to the general to see if there was a higher turnout for the primaries. It wouldn't...

          Yeah, I saw that it included midterms. I was really curious to see how what turnouts were like from the primaries to the general to see if there was a higher turnout for the primaries. It wouldn't surprise me one bit.