historical voting data

[didier deshommes]

Hi there,
I took a quick look at http://watchdog.jottit.com/volunteer and I
decided to write some quick code to parse historical voting data. The
code is here:

http://github.com/dfdeshom/watchdog/tree/master/import/parse/historical_voting.py

It parses all the files in /data/manual/rvdb/allYears/ and outputs one
dictionary for every line parsed, like so:

{'county_name': 'Autauga',
'dem_count': '1149',
'other_count': '89',
'rep_count': '1324',
'state': 'alabama',
'year': '1960'}

Comments, improvements and suggestions are welcome!

didier

[Aaron Swartz]

> 'dem_count': '1149',
> 'other_count': '89',
> 'rep_count': '1324',

I assume these are thousands or something like that? Can we just
multiply by a 1000 for clarity?

[didier deshommes]

No, these look like raw numbers to me.

didier

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[Aaron Swartz]

> I took a quick look at http://watchdog.jottit.com/volunteer and I
> decided to write some quick code to parse historical voting data. The
> code is here:
>
> http://github.com/dfdeshom/watchdog/tree/master/import/parse/historical_voting.py

Thanks, and sorry for taking so long to get back to you on this. I
committed it with a few style changes:

http://github.com/aaronsw/watchdog/tree/2c1f934d14c9eb20b09a5d4657d1a4b674ffbb09/import/parse/rvdb.py