Thursday, May 14, 2009

Statistics matter

For those keeping track, a few new additions to GovCheck.net were rolled out last night.

  • Statistics from the previous election for a given constituency were added. What this means is that on a given constituency's page (see http://govcheck.net/repregion/ajmer-rajasthan/ for example) you can now see how many candidates stood for elections, how many people were eligible to vote, how many actually voted and what the winning margin was. See the screenshot for example.
Consituency map changes

  • The other addition is minor, but given the available data, has the potential to be significant. On a given state's page, you can now, in addition to the voting statistics, see the sex ratio of said state too (see http://govcheck.net/state/rajasthan/ for example). The reason I say this has the potential to be more than just this is because all census data for a given state is now being collected. The next step is to display that data in a useful way now.
  • Finally, in addition to the Web, News and Video searches, there is now a Twitter search tab (see http://govcheck.net/state/rajasthan/ for example) on all of the State, Party, Constituency and Representative pages. This should help you in getting a more real time understanding of what is being said about the current object.

Additionally the pretty url's trend has been extended. Now all states, constituencies and parties use better urls (see http://govcheck.net/state/22/ vs. http://govcheck.net/state/rajasthan/). As before, older urls should not break - if you have bookmarks, you will be redirected to the new url automatically.

If you have any comments about this change, do let us know.

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