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North Carolina Elections Project

Contributors

  • Alisa Kwok
  • Edwin Alvarado
  • Nick Solomon

Outcome

Our project resulted in a shiny dashboard compiling our findings that allows users to explore the data interactively.

Project Description

In this project, we will use the publicly available North Carolina voter history and registration files to create demographic profiles of voters in the 2012, 2014, and 2016 elections. Then these profiles will be compared with other measures of the voting population, including the Current Population Survey, administered by Census Bureau and the Department of Labor. Finally, our findings will be presented publicly on the Internet, allowing for anyone who is interested to explore the difference between the actual population of North Carolina and the voting population.

Timeline

Wednesday, April 5

SQL database set up

Friday, April 7

CPS / CCES / ANES data identified, imported

Monday, April 10

All data wrangled, tidied

Wednesday, April 12

Initial visualizations made

Wednesday, April 19 - Sunday, April 23

Work on app started, presentation preparation

Wednesday, April 26 - Friday, April 28

Presentations

Wednesday, May 10

Project submitted

Editor's Note

This project was way more complex than most, and I wasn't able to access some of the data used. Details about these issues are contained in individual folder READMEs. The shiny dashboard linked to above is static, however, and will run fine.

This repo is organized following the guidelines outlined here, adapted for use in this class from work by Project TIER and Thomas Leeper

Jay Lee, Reed College

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