Greetings! My first post!
I'm a coder and I'd like to look for more clues in the SCTYL data that Edward Solomon has, but I'm trying to find the original format.
It seems it was in over a hundred different files or json objects, but I can't figure out where to get a copy of that.
Any tips or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you! Much appreciated!
I have all of the NYT timeseries data for all of the states, but it's based on that "percentage of total votes" model, which makes it hard to look for exact ratios and stuff.
I also have Edward Solomon's CSV which appears to be made from 175 separate files (but I'm not sure) and it seems to actually have exact vote count numbers. But some things in that file are confusing to me.
In writing this, I did examine it more carefully and noticed some patterns to the structure of the data.
There are 175 timestamps. Almost as if it was created from 175 updates. This most be what Edward calls a "Global update."
Each and every update has exactly 4 entries for each precinct.
But why? I don't know. It could be they had 4 ballot scanners at each precinct, but that doesn't make sense because the ballot scanners sent stuff to the main image cast server (? guessing?) or the adjudication server(?) regardless of which scanner it came from..
But there is a column called Locality and any number of precincts can live at any given locality.
But I don't know if that means the locality is where the voter lives, or where the ballot was counted.
There is a column in the CSV file which has a unique number for each entry in a given update, but I don't know if that was just a line number in the update or if it relates to the other data. It's only one not labeled in the CSV file.
So I guess my questions are "Why are there four entries per precinct per global update?" and other questions like "What is the meaning of life?" ha ha!