Election toy

[ciphergoth]

I re-wrote the election toy in Java so you could all use it from your browsers.

1997 Labour landslide
2001 elections

You'll need the latest Java plugin, especially if you're using IE.

Update: now with lots of extra pretty!

Comments

[babysimon]

http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/svgdom.html

[kitty-goth.livejournal.com]

What are the "rogue pixels" I see in the 2001 results?

Boundary changes / Created seats? Or something else?

I'm on Firefox 1.0 on Mac

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Hover the mouse over them and tell me what constituency they are?

[selectnone.livejournal.com]

"We've got a transluminal Tatton in triacre C!"

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Tatton was held by Martin Bell who took it from the Hamiltons. Neither Labour nor the Lib Dems stood against him, so the Tories got 100% of the major party vote in 97 though Bell got 60.2% of the votes cast. He stood down the next year, so the seat returned to Tory control with a 20% majority.

Two of the other weird ones are speakers, since it's traditional not to stand against them.

[kitty-goth.livejournal.com]

It's Tatton.

The circles and raw data display don't work in Firefox / Mac, although they do in Safari / Mac. I didn't know you *could* mouseover things until I tried it in Safari.

It also crashes Firefox / Mac with a reproducible case. (Click twice on the drawing panel, then close the tab with the applet in it. Firefox exits shortly after).

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Bah. Thank you Sun.

[zbyszek.livejournal.com]

Neat!

[thekumquat.livejournal.com]

Wot's 'SwingViz not found mean?'

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

I don't know. What browser were you using, and at what time? Thanks!

[meico.livejournal.com]

Nifty. The more accisble and visual this kind of stuff is the better. :)

Reminds me very much of the Spatio Temporal Conversation Mapping viewer app I made, but a yours is a bit more pertinent...

[meico.livejournal.com]

"accisble"->"accessible"

Ugh, must remember to spell check before hastily posting....

Technical

[pavlos.livejournal.com]

Very interesting. Now we need a theory for whether the visible patterns are really patterns, and what they signify.

I'm on Mac OS 10.3.9. Your program playes perfectly on Safari 1.3 (v312). On Firefox 1.0.3 or Camino 0.8.3 it appears to do nothing. The applet loads but then the screen stays white.

All that is with the default version(s) of Java that came with the system. I didn't try the plugin from Sun.