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Post by andrewteale on Jun 2, 2018 23:04:27 GMT
I've been having a think about alternative ways to display the information in the LEAP database and try and bring it all together. Here's a report I've put together on Wealden council - which happened to be at the top of my queue at the moment - showing all the results from that council from 2003 to date, including all the by-elections and suchlike. It took a while to put together but I should be able to semi-automate it, given a bit of time to get the code right. I'd be grateful for feedback on whether this sort of thing is worthwhile and (if so) what could be improved. www.andrewteale.me.uk/misc/wealden.pdf |
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Post by yellowperil on Jun 3, 2018 6:13:50 GMT
I've been having a think about alternative ways to display the information in the LEAP database and try and bring it all together. Here's a report I've put together on Wealden council - which happened to be at the top of my queue at the moment - showing all the results from that council from 2003 to date, including all the by-elections and suchlike. It took a while to put together but I should be able to semi-automate it, given a bit of time to get the code right. I'd be grateful for feedback on whether this sort of thing is worthwhile and (if so) what could be improved. www.andrewteale.me.uk/misc/wealden.pdfAbsolutely brilliant, Andrew. The big advance on what is currently available seems to me the incorporation of all the by-election data within the big picture and we all know by now you don't have to go back very far to find that local authorities don't seem to archive by-election data properly even when they archive the mainstream elections- what a pity we don't have something like this for the last century. It really does look as though we could have a resource for this century at least which is truly comprehensive, and that is great. Maybe the actual presentation looks a tad spartan compared with what we are used to getting from you, but guess this is just because its a work in progress- time to jazz it up when you're sure the basics are right? |
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Jun 27, 2018 12:32:31 GMT
It's definitely useful, particularly for those who are only interested in one particular authority. It might also be worth including the maps coloured in for each ordinary election - the blank map helps, but if you don't know which ward is for which area you're still likely to be doing a fair bit of flicking back and forth.
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