Ideas

ideas.txt

@@ -17,13 +17,13 @@ How rebellious a party it is. etc.
 
 Proportion of abstentions within each party, may reveal times when MPs abstain in protest.  
 
+% of completely pliant MPs in each party, who always follow whip.
+
 Amusing tables
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 MPs who shouldn't be in their party
 
-% of completely pliant MPs, who always follow whip.
-
 Table of members who died, who changed party etc.
 
 Table of all MPs which have never voted - interesting to see
@@ -42,10 +42,9 @@ Top day of week for voting.  Distribution for individual MPs.
 Data anlaysis (using existing data)
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-If this is very important to you, we could add something that measured a
-sudden drop in attendance rate - so you could see that the MP used to
-vote a certain % of the time and now doesn't.  This would detect in
-long-term cases that something is up, so you could find out what it is.
+Measure a sudden drop in attendance rate - so you could see that the MP
+used to vote a certain % of the time and now doesn't.  This will 
+detect illness/injury/busy for some other reason.
 
 Chris Lighthead:  "I've now written some code to estimate which of the
 eigenvectors are significant. The basic idea is that we generate

todo.txt

@@ -1,33 +1,27 @@
-General
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-
-Investigate EDMs, legality of using them
-Look for EDMs on parliament.uk (in daily papers)
-
 Web site
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-<h2> spacing on IE
-
 Java in Opera Win32
 
-Measure abstentions by parliament rather than global proportions?
-MP page - print parliament in vote lists
-
 Pass W3C validator
 http://validator.w3.org/
+And bobby
+
+Mention Bureaucracy game on Hansard liaison page
 
 Scraper
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+Measure abstentions by parliament rather than global proportions?
+
 Record tellers
 Crosscheck lack of tellers with deferred division, should be one to one correspondence.
 
 Make cluster stuff store NUMBER OF VOTES both voted in for extra possible friends info
 
 Look at majorities
 
-Check for repeate typo'ed constituencies
+Check for repeated typo'ed constituencies
  - in "check" do a search for solitary ones
 
 Garbage collection!
@@ -38,18 +32,12 @@ don't make an entry using the reasons
 Make one script I have to run which just does everything (backup logs,
 backup sf cvs repository, get latest divisions, upload to db)
 
-Also I need to tidy the whole thing up to be more usable.  Reduce the
-number of commands, make the pipeline more straightforward, and so it
-doesn't go wrong if you do things in the wrong order.
-
 Check "Question accordingly..." fits with our counting
 Tally vote numbers in text and check they fit with our counting
 
 Search for divisions on days MP joined/left, as these could have
 off-by-one errors for their changed party
 
-Check SourceForge backup
-
 Improve motion text / title extraction
     division.php?date=2003-02-03&number=74 - and div 73, detail missing
     division.php?date=2003-09-16&number=313 - too much text [interruption]