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What do you like? What don't you like?
This is clever and I find it highly entertaining to read all of the trolls and flamebait. The white flash when the graphs update is extremely irritating to me.
I agree about the white flash. We decided to give nvd3 a try for charts, and it does that as part of its default animation. We'll probably disable animations or figure out some way to keep redraws from flashing like that.
What do you like? What don't you like?
I love the whole concept and execution, except I think the tweets should scroll by slightly slower, as sometimes you don't have time to read a tweet before it disappears.
It's a fun visualization to have up as a dashboard, I think I'll keep it running during the debates. I love the design; it's very easy to read, and the simplicity and color make it easy to digest information at a glance. My constructive criticism: For the word frequency charts at the top of the screen, I'd weed out common words, and/or try to combine words into meaningful phrases. http://www.wordle.net/ does a good j…
What words do you think shouldn't be there?
What do you like? What don't you like?
How are you matching Twitter accounts to voter registration?
We have voter rolls (preprocessed) into elastic search. We do search using data available from twitter (name & location, mostly). We can't match all twitter users who are voters, but we have a very low false-positive rate.
How are you matching Twitter accounts to voter registration?
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This is clever and I find it highly entertaining to read all of the trolls and flamebait. The white flash when the graphs update is extremely irritating to me.
Fellow Votizen dev. I agree about the white flash. We decided to give nvd3 a try for charts, and it does that as part of its default animation. We'll probably disable animations or figure out some way to keep redraws from flashing like that.
div.chart {opacity: 1 !important;}
It is a hack but should work.
Interesting. I'm particularly interested in how you got this matched up against voter lists. Some states are quite a PIA to collect.
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This is clever and I find it highly entertaining to read all of the trolls and flamebait. The white flash when the graphs update is extremely irritating to me.
Fellow Votizen dev. I agree about the white flash. We decided to give nvd3 a try for charts, and it does that as part of its default animation. We'll probably disable animations or figure out some way to keep redraws from flashing like that.