{"id":200,"date":"2008-11-04T16:46:47","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T00:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/?p=200"},"modified":"2009-06-11T20:21:10","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T04:21:10","slug":"network-of-ballot-measure-endorsements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/?p=200","title":{"rendered":"Network of ballot measure endorsements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/?p=200\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image206\" src=\"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/capropscloseup2.jpg\" alt=\"Closeup of CA Proposition Endorsement network\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is election day!  Fingers crossed&#8230;. ;-)  Before today I was searching for various organizations&#8217; endorsements of California ballot measures.  Finally located some data, and was curious how it would appear as a network showing the organizations and the propositions they support.  Was able to scrape data for University of Berkley&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/igs.berkeley.edu\/library\/hot_topics\/2008\/Nov2008Election\/endorseNOV2008.html\">IGS Library Ballot Measure Endorsement page (for Nov. 2008)<\/a> and create a few network images.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>One shows all the <strong>positive<\/strong> endorsements:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/propendorseca.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image202\" src=\"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/propendorseca.jpg\" alt=\"Positive Endorsements of CA propositions \" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the other shows all the <strong>negative<\/strong> endorsements:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/propopposeca.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image203\" src=\"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/propopposeca.jpg\" alt=\"Network of opposition endorsements to CA Propositions\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n(The resolution of these images is a little low to read the labels, but they are linked to pdfs) <\/p>\n<p>Cute, but not terribly useful.  There does seem to be a bit of structure at least in the negative endorsements.  Some clumping of opposition to Props 9,6, 8, and 4.  (These are pretty nasty pro-prison, anti-abortion and anti-gay measures.)  Also seems to be a cluster around around 10 and 7.    I wonder if centrality in these networks would predict win\/loss any better than the raw organizational endorsements?  Might be interesting to set this up as something interactive, where you could click a measure and highlight the endorsers and relevant text..  There is also some data from past years, so should be possible to do some cluster analysis that would be a bit more rigorous than just the network maps.  At first I thought I&#8217;d be able to make co-endorsing networks, but even thresholded by numbers of endorsements, the networks were too dense for useful pictures. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is election day! Fingers crossed&#8230;. ;-) Before today I was searching for various organizations&#8217; endorsements of California ballot measures. Finally located some data, and was curious how it would appear as a network showing the organizations and the propositions they support. Was able to scrape data for University of Berkley&#8217;s IGS Library Ballot Measure &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/?p=200\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Network of ballot measure endorsements<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}