Nice!

I'll have to wait until I get home to try it out, though, but I'm sure it'll be fun.

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by: gs @ Mon Nov 30, 2009 at 20:27:51 PM UTC

I'm working a set of shapes for CA and WI

The statewide database at Cal has some good info, but it just needs to be refined a bit further and pieced together with population data.

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by: jeffmd @ Mon Nov 30, 2009 at 20:51:17 PM UTC

Excellent

Thanks Dave!  

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by: andgarden @ Mon Nov 30, 2009 at 21:32:46 PM UTC

Does this work on existing VTD maps for MD?

If so, where would I see it?

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by: andgarden @ Mon Nov 30, 2009 at 21:36:00 PM UTC

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Uh oh, it looks like there's a tooltips regression on Mac. . .

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by: andgarden @ Mon Nov 30, 2009 at 21:37:11 PM UTC

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What's the symptom?

The tooltip on a vtd should show the partisan breakdown on the second line.

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by: dgb @ Mon Nov 30, 2009 at 22:21:49 PM UTC

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Two things

1) as in several versions ago, the tooltips often just don't show up (or you have to go back and forth several times to make them show up; and

2) I see no second line, either in the tooltips on in the demographic bar at the bottom of the screen (for the selected district).

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by: andgarden @ Mon Nov 30, 2009 at 22:24:55 PM UTC

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Tooltips

(1) is a feature. The problem is that populated the thousands of tooltips is real slow (in the Silverlight code), so I populate them lazily.

(2) Not sure. Did you get the dialog box informing you of the number of vtds in the partisan data that did not get matched? When I first posted this diary that didn't work, but someone found it and I fixed it pretty quickly (when diary was updated).

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by: dgb @ Mon Nov 30, 2009 at 22:45:12 PM UTC

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As to 1, I understand why you're doing it that way

but it can be pretty tedious to draw a map when it's difficult to get the data to show up.

As to 2, nope, no box. Is there a cache I should clear?  

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by: andgarden @ Tue Dec 01, 2009 at 01:09:51 AM UTC

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But returning to 1, it would be really helpful

to selectively shade the districts by demographic and political info.  

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by: andgarden @ Tue Dec 01, 2009 at 01:17:24 AM UTC

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Thank you

Thanks alot for getting the data onto the App in Maryland. Do you have a rough estimate of when you will have partisan data for other states? Thanks  

for more election analysis, visit  http://frogandturtle.blogspot....

17, CA-06,  

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by: Alibguy @ Tue Dec 01, 2009 at 00:03:17 AM UTC

New York

next weekend....

Then it will depend on the help that the community can provide. I'll post another diary describing how that might work.

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by: dgb @ Tue Dec 01, 2009 at 00:08:41 AM UTC

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I'm not seeing any partisan data.

Where is it supposed to be?  Am I just not looking in the right place?

Follow the elections in Georgia at the 2010 Georgia Race Tracker.

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by: TheUnknown285 @ Tue Dec 01, 2009 at 00:37:36 AM UTC

It's in the same places as racial data

28, Unenrolled, MA-08

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by: Marcus @ Tue Dec 01, 2009 at 01:58:19 AM UTC

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Ok, that's strange

It's working for me in Firefox by not Safari.

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by: andgarden @ Tue Dec 01, 2009 at 02:05:35 AM UTC

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Yep not working for me in chrome

but works in Firefox. The pop-up indicating that there is partisan data does not show in chrome, but does in firefox.  

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by: sulthernao @ Tue Dec 01, 2009 at 02:10:08 AM UTC

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LOL. NOT working for me in FireFox but works in IE.

Follow the elections in Georgia at the 2010 Georgia Race Tracker.

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by: TheUnknown285 @ Tue Dec 01, 2009 at 02:14:40 AM UTC

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Weird

On Windows Vista it's working in Firefox and IE for me. Hard to know why. Perhaps multi-line tooltips?

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by: dgb @ Tue Dec 01, 2009 at 03:06:49 AM UTC

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Oh man

I'm gonna have fun with this

Some Dude, 19, Democrat, NH-02 (residence), MA-08 (college)

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by: xcave @ Tue Dec 01, 2009 at 03:04:08 AM UTC

great feature ...

but please note that, at least for Maryland, the trickiest part to update/correlate will be Baltimore City.  Not only were precincts added there over the last 8 years, but many (perhaps even most ?) of the precincts have been renumbered.  So the data that shows up currently on the application may be way off --

for ex., part of Cherry Hill in south Balto. (which is a neighborhood that is almost all African-American) is showing up as 49 Obama/45 McCain.  The reason is that it's listed as precinct 25-11.  The "real" (current) precinct 25-11 is just accross the Patapsco River in the Brooklyn part of the city (which is labeled 25-12 on the application)... you can see on this map of current precincts: http://www.baltimorecity.gov/g...

Balto. City is by far the worst in terms of this.  (The other area I remember from when I did diaries for Maryland a few months ago is that parts of northern Prince George's County were also like this).  Much of the rest of the state, you only have to deal with the additional 200 or so precincts that have been added, as the precinct numbers tend to "stay in place" geographically, but in Balto. City it may be particularly cumbersome b/c of the annoying renumbering.  

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by: silver spring @ Tue Dec 01, 2009 at 04:36:19 AM UTC

This is where I need help

Great comments. This is exactly where I need help. If you (and others like you across the country) can provide solutions to these problems, I can get the solutions into the application to correct this.

For the problem you point out, possible approaches could be:
-- mapping the new districts back into the old;
-- finding new shapes that match the new districts and then
     -- mapping the 2000 population data into those new districts OR
     -- finding population data that matches the new districts

If you have any ideas for Maryland, please let me know.

Thanks!

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by: dgb @ Tue Dec 01, 2009 at 05:36:45 AM UTC

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Address List

The MD Board of Elections has a list of precinct voting addresses and another one with reams of data on every election in '08 (with a similar one for '06) that you could use to line things up in almost all cases.

Of course that would be really tedious since there are a lot of precincts in Baltimore City.

I looked at that huge Excel sheet one day for the hell of it after the '08 elections. There were actually handful of precincts in the city where McCain bested Obama, as well as a handful where there were either zero votes or a single vote for McCain. (My own precinct in a mostly white part of town went for Obama by about 3:1.)    

36, M, Democrat, MD-03

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by: Answer Guy @ Fri Dec 04, 2009 at 03:24:01 AM UTC

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Suggestion for the App

Allow it to show county boundaries but not county names.

26, male, Dem, NJ-12

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by: duffman @ Wed Dec 02, 2009 at 07:11:48 AM UTC

Good Idea

And if the CDs are shaped weirdly, the placement of the CD label is not that good.

Thanks.

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by: dgb @ Thu Dec 03, 2009 at 05:21:21 AM UTC

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I can give you a hand with Michigan

There really isn't much point including partisan data for Michigan because I know that all of the precincts in Detroit have been completely renumbered, but I do have a map of the 2008 Precincts for Detroit, Grand Rapids, Pontiac, Flint, Marquette County, and I'm sure I could find others.

16, Male, MI-01

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by: Menhen @ Wed Dec 02, 2009 at 23:33:34 PM UTC

More info on how to help soon

I need to move some files around and write up an explanation to make it clear what's needed. Thanks.

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by: dgb @ Thu Dec 03, 2009 at 05:19:12 AM UTC

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