From 87f26574c4c4629297c92735bb1fc8ecc324c996 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: frabcus Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 11:21:19 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Ideas --- ideas.txt | 11 +++++------ todo.txt | 24 ++++++------------------ 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) diff --git a/ideas.txt b/ideas.txt index ba986d1d..55c8bf46 100644 --- a/ideas.txt +++ b/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 -------------- 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) ------------- -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 diff --git a/todo.txt b/todo.txt index 6dda7876..59596772 100644 --- a/todo.txt +++ b/todo.txt @@ -1,25 +1,19 @@ -General -------- - -Investigate EDMs, legality of using them -Look for EDMs on parliament.uk (in daily papers) - Web site -------- -

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 ------- +Measure abstentions by parliament rather than global proportions? + Record tellers Crosscheck lack of tellers with deferred division, should be one to one correspondence. @@ -27,7 +21,7 @@ Make cluster stuff store NUMBER OF VOTES both voted in for extra possible friend 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]