(1) data collection and cleaning, (2) text recognition and object extraction, (3) color quantization, and (4) chart visualization Full size image 3.1 Data collection From April to December 2021, eight months prior to the vote, we collected our dataset on Facebook. We crawled a total of ...
This time it was on Spectrum’s New York City television news program. The segment was about a charity called The Doe Fund that seeks to help the homeless get jobs. The person interviewed stated that Ronald Reagan cut funds for housing in 1980 and the amount of homelessness has gone up ...
An enhanced Nolan Chart quiz. A voting system experiment based on the 2020 presidential election. Experiments and speculations on third party political strategy. And more.
I wanted to share here the chart I drew up from this information in the public domain. This data is not quite so simple as a headcount, as those on joint courses are counted as as fractional (for example, someone studying a Music and English course would be counted as 0.5 Music, 0.5 ...
The top chart stops right before asset-forfeiture seizure of grow houses wrecked the mortgage-backed securities and derivatives market. Today’s fanatics have the same agenda as Nixon and Agnew, cheered by clones of Billy Graham.(link)
Also, as children do not vote, politicians often cater less to their needs than they do citizens at the other end of the age spectrum, the elderly, who not only can vote, but reliably do in large numbers. Before entering kindergarten, students who have attended preschool will have learned ...
etc. Some of these people could rightly be called (as eureka has been so accused) 'bibliobibuli', with tons of 'book smarts' to the detriment of awareness of the world around them. That doesn't mean that they take an equal spread of personal beliefs across the political spectrum to for...
To that point, and as per the Pew chart above, the partisan effects have been clear from the beginning. James Joyner wrote about it early on in March,Coronavirus Has Been Politicized to Dangerous Effect, and I noted how it affected state-level responses in early April:Partisan Effects on Re...
The book's chart depicts the "value-free" science of economics in a rather partisan way: it places Modern Mainstream Economics center stage as the fulfillment of its precursors -- and leaves Socialism on the far left, trailing off into irrelevance. Posted on February 04, 2012 at 01:30 PM...