Ranked-choice voting in Portland and San Francisco
One of my recent projects with the Indaba Application Network was a ranked-choice straw poll dedicated to San Francisco’s ranked-choice/instant runoff Mayoral race. The poll is closed now, but the site...
View ArticleComparing Ranked-Choice and Pairwise Evaluation User Experiences
Here’s a handy formula that expresses a key virtue of ranked-choice interfaces over head-to-head pairwise evaluations… N(N-1)/2. Head-to-head interfaces are typical of “Whose hotter?” sites such as...
View ArticleThe C. G. P. Grey Alternate Voting Playlist
If you haven’t already seen CGP Grey’s YouTube video on Holland vs the Netherlands, it’s a treat… over 2 million views so far. Grey has also turned his considerable talents to explaining the virtues of...
View ArticleRanked Choice Polls and Sygnol Analytics
I first became of ranked choice mathematics in mid 2000, when the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) used Instant Runoff Voting to elect 5 at-large members to the Board of...
View ArticleNew RKEY Logo
I’ve been playing with logos, getting help from here and there. Still tweaking, but pretty soon I’ll be able to move on and print up new cards.
View ArticleVisualizing Political Polarization in the USA
This interactive graph published by the Pew Research Center, tells a couple of important stories about the political mood in the Untied States. Neither is a big surprise. One is that the parties are...
View ArticleTesting out a new polling widget
The poll questions are kind of arbitrary and nonsensical because I’m focused on testing the behavior of this widget inside of a WordPress post. Right away it’s evident that if I want the poll to be...
View ArticleFirst Version of AimsPoll
The Traitwise-made poll can be run simultaneously from multiple locations. A few surveys were completed as a result of very light promotion on Google and Facebook. No evidence of any problems so far.
View ArticleThe Information Debate
I’ve been doing a lot of reading about Marshall McLuhan and Tony Schwartz, which has been very enlightening. It came in handy recently, when some folks I know in the Media Ecology Association got into...
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