The myth of turnout

Dec 28, 15 The myth of turnout

Posted by in Election forecasting, Featured

As part of our election forecasting project of the 2015 Croatian general election, during the two months of pre-election build up we were required to analyze the four previous electoral cycles and find some underlying trends that could be helpful in our forecasting model, but also to bust some deeply embedded domestic political...

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Cartograms of election results

Dec 21, 15 Cartograms of election results

Posted by in Data visualization, Featured

By Dejan Vinković: Cartograms are maps with deformed geometries that substitute land area with some other thematic mapping variable, such as election results. Conveying information in this way often produces more informative visualization than ordinary maps, especially when used for online interactive data access. Election results...

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Election forecasting for the Croatian 2015 general elections

Dec 15, 15 Election forecasting for the Croatian 2015 general elections

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By Mile Šikić, Dejan Vinković, and Vuk Vuković: As a part of an election coverage project initiated by the biggest daily newspaper in Croatia, Jutarnji list, we were given the opportunity to introduce, for the first time in this part of Europe, a prediction model of general elections which simultaneously uses election polls,...

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