Updates: Election Analysis

[cdonnay]

1. make sure Borda score dict knows about how many candidates are ranked
2. borda averaging conventions
3. clean up plot_summary_stats (Plot summary stats, x axis looks messy, Districtr colors, Add threshold line, Replace candidates with numbers, add key, Sorted in order, Fig, ax objects as keywords, Return ax object to modify, allow for multiple profiles?)
4. different ballot cleaning options
5. stv round output
6. candidate class, race/gender
7. 3 matrices (comentions, boosts, avg distance), color coded
8. find ballot with X
9. Portland uses slightly different threshold for stv
10. Histogram of ballot lengths (allow for multiple profiles?)

[cdonnay]

David suggests renaming remove_noncands since it can be used to remove any string

[cdonnay]

clean up plot_summary_stats

2. x axis looks messy,
3. Districtr colors,
4. Add threshold line,
5. Replace candidates with numbers,
6. add key, Sorted in order,
7. Fig, ax objects as keywords, Return ax object to modify,
8. allow for multiple profiles

[cdonnay]

David has code for representation numbers. use on multiple winer election types:
m seats

• vote for 1
• vote for m
• stv
• borda
• condo-borda
• seq-rcv

[cdonnay]

Jeanne clean ballots:

• Portland removes over/under vote ranking slots and collapses the remaining ranking vector. If candidate is ranked more than once, take the highest ranking and collapses the remaining ranking vector
• remove non-viable candidates (less than threshold number of mentions), maybe in a tutorial but not in the codebase?

[cdonnay]

Jeanne choropleths:

• added all sorts of election stats to the shapefile, FPV for candidates, bordas, etc.
• maybe this is a good fit for gerrytools? not really any votekit code used here, but it is a cool election viz :)

[cdonnay]

make sure that borda function defaults play nicely with bar plots.