Very cool! I notice that there's no explicit redistribution license listed on these files. Are you planning on licensing them for use in open source software (e.g. Electowidget)?
Rob On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 20:44 -0800, rob brown wrote: > I made a start at some stuff to do improved output for condorcet > election results. > > http://karmatics.com/voting/testharness.html > > There is no server component to this, so if you want to play with it > you can download the files to your computer, edit them to your heart's > content and it will all work. The processing is done in javascript, > which has a lot of advantages for some of the future plans I have for > this. For instance, it doesn't really matter if an algorithm is > inefficient, since it is processed on the client. Also there is a > certain transparency to be had by having the processing (at least the > post-pairwise matrix processing) happen on the client. And of course > the ease that anyone can muck with it without having to have perl, > php, a web server, or any of that sort of thing running (all you need > is a browser and text editor). > > To allow an actual election to take place there will have to be a > server component of course. > > The scoring stuff is experimental. I'm sure I'll do other tabulation > methods, but I figured I'd start with the scoring algorithm I came up > with, and try not to lose sleep over who is offended by that :) . I'm > also planning on doing some stuff to display "relative scores" on the > bar chart....soon. Got various other plans for this, but I figured > I'd throw what I've got out there for now. It will probably be > several weeks before I do more with it since I can't afford much more > time right now. > > -rob > ---- > election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
