The risk is that a complicated number is released without context into a world that doesn’t know how to think about it. The ‘R… Read More »Ten reasons to be cautious about using R to support decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic
This is a follow-up to the recent blog article, ‘Where are we on the COVID-19 curve?. The previous article used three day averages for… Read More »Where are we on the COVID-19 curve? (Update at 16 April 2020)
Most of us by now understand the need to ‘flatten the curve’ in order to reduce the number of overall cases of COVID-19 and… Read More »Where are we on the COVID-19 curve?
Transferred votes are an extremely important part of the Single Transferable Vote (STV) system. In the 2017 Assembly Election, only 18 MLAs had a sufficient number of first preference votes to meet the quota and to be elected at the first count; the remaining 72 were elected at a later stage and required transferred votes. This post examines how votes were transferred between parties.
Read More »Transferred votes in the March 2017 Assembly Election
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