Jan 17, 2021Georgia Senate Visualization Part 2: Runoff EditionIntroduction While the news was overshadowed by the attempted coup at The Capitol, history was made in Georgia earlier in January when Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff were elected to become Georgia’s first African-American and Jewish senators in what was also Georgia’s highest turnout runoff. As reported by FiveThirtyEight: “Over…R10 min readR10 min read
Nov 29, 2020Visualizing the 2020 Georgia Races with RIntroduction If you’ve turned on a TV or been on a news site in the last month you’ll no doubt be aware that Georgia has been, as the southerners would say, the belle of the ball this election cycle. Between Biden’s historic win (in that Georgia has only gone for two…Ggplot 210 min readGgplot 210 min read
Nov 12, 2020Predicting the 2020 Senate Races With the Cook Partisan Voting IndexPreface This is a continuation of a previous article I had written before the election (although not published until after as I’m a master procrastinator); if you haven’t had a chance to read it yet you can do so here. As mentioned before, this blogging/data-journalism thing is intended as a way…2020 Senate Elections12 min read2020 Senate Elections12 min read
Nov 11, 2020Predicting Senate Races with Linear Regression (and R)Preface I was recently inspired by this article by David Robinson to try my hand at some kind of blogging. It seemed a good time as any, as it would afford me an opportunity to practice some of the skills I’ve been learning as part of an online statistics class that…Politics And Elections12 min readPolitics And Elections12 min read
