itsdfish / RankChoiceVoting.jl

A Julia package for simulating and analyzing rank choice voting systems.
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Collaboration? #8

Open tecosaur opened 2 weeks ago

tecosaur commented 2 weeks ago

Hello there!

I started on https://github.com/tecosaur/Voting.jl a ~year and a half ago, would you be interested in collaborating?

itsdfish commented 2 weeks ago

Hello!

Thanks for stumbling across my repo. I think I have a similar story. I started this project about a year and a half ago. Just a quick disclaimer: rank choice voting systems are not my expertise. Its just a topic that piqued my interest.

Yeah. I would be interested in collaborating at some point. Let me finish a few projects and take some time to compare the repos. Maybe one design is better than the other, or maybe there is a third hybrid that is superior to the two components. Maybe they are just different tradeoffs. I'll see if I can get a lay of the land.

Update

I gave your repo a cursory look and there is a lot of overlap in the basic approach and organization. It seems like there would be potential to integrate the packages.

tecosaur commented 2 weeks ago

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly! Sounds like we indeed came from the same place, I think I just started reading about voting systems at some point and was disappointed there seemed to be no easy way to try them out and compare in practice.

I've only taken a glance at your work, but I see a few nice overlaps. Currently, I like the look of:

If you're interested in realtime chat I'm around on the Julia Discourse and Zulip as Timothy (same avatar as here).