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Data from multiple providers? #37

Open tomdotcash opened 3 years ago

tomdotcash commented 3 years ago

Has there been any comparison of results for the race with data from different providers? E.g, compare NYT Edison vs Clarity Elections for Georgia or Fulton County

For what it's worth, I created a simple project to download data from NYT, perhaps it could one day be an option for this repo's analysis:

https://github.com/tomdotcash/election_data

paras20xx commented 3 years ago

@tomdotcash Are you able to identify/parse that data to the smallest possible level (precinct/ward level)?

The more the sample size (and smaller the numbers), the better. I'm experimenting with different bases (have generated some graphs at https://github.com/paras20xx/benford-law-2020-us-election).

Till now, I have been referring to data from official sites (via https://github.com/paras20xx/benford-law-2020-us-election/blob/main/copy-files-from-to.cjson) , but, it is very tough to get good enough numbers.

chavenor commented 3 years ago

https://www.fec.gov/introduction-campaign-finance/how-to-research-public-records/combined-federalstate-disclosure-and-election-directory/.