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voteview / WebVoteView

Webbased rollcall vote visualization software
MIT License
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Explain nominate #287

Open adamboche opened 7 years ago

adamboche commented 7 years ago

Might make sense to explain the NOMINATE scores and give methodology on data/about page, where the data is. Could even name this section ‘DW-NOMINATE data’ instead of ‘data’, since a lot of people are familiar with the scores and might be coming to the site looking to download that data.

aaronrudkin commented 6 years ago

I think this is the absolute most useful thing we could do in the next 6 months to improve site usability: write a series of blog posts on how NOMINATE scores work, NOMINATE versus Nokken-Poole, The Second Dimension (and What It Isn't), and a handful of others. This would encourage adoption too -- if journalists and users understand it, they may feel more comfortable in the scores. These will also be necessary as we plan to change the updating algorithm; we need to tell people how we expect scores to change and why, and that begins with telling them how the scores they're currently seeing are calculated.