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Which Edmonton City Councillor are You?
Since the Ward 12 by-election just a few months ago, Edmonton city council has gotten into quite a few rather contentious votes. Most recently the Mezzo Building decision left quite a few observers rather upset, but earlier council decided to scrap the proposed Hawrelak Park Water Play Feature (w...
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Since the Ward 12 by-election just a few months ago, Edmonton city council has gotten into quite a few rather contentious votes. Most recently the Mezzo Building decision left quite a few observers rather upset, but earlier council decided to scrap the proposed Hawrelak Park Water Play Feature (w...
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Edmonton Zone Map
Earlier this week, there was a bit of a kerfuffle raised at City Council when they contentiously passed a motion to allow a new 16-storey building near Whyte Avenue. In order to allow the new building, they had to change some of the zoning around the area.I was curious about exactly what the...
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Earlier this week, there was a bit of a kerfuffle raised at City Council when they contentiously passed a motion to allow a new 16-storey building near Whyte Avenue. In order to allow the new building, they had to change some of the zoning around the area.I was curious about exactly what the...
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Gender Equality in APEGA
Pop quiz: Given that recent data suggests that women earn 72% of what men do for similar work in Canada, what is the wage gap for women in engineering in Alberta?A) 13%B) 0.15%C) The math depends on your agendaYou're right! The math behind the wage gap depends on what you're looking to achieve in...
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Pop quiz: Given that recent data suggests that women earn 72% of what men do for similar work in Canada, what is the wage gap for women in engineering in Alberta?A) 13%B) 0.15%C) The math depends on your agendaYou're right! The math behind the wage gap depends on what you're looking to achieve in...
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Edmonton 2015 Federal Election Results
As you might remember, that big old scary 2015 Federal Election happened way back in October. However, the Government only released the official results of the election just yesterday - go take a look at them, they're quite cool!In the meantime, here's the final official map of how each poll in E...
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As you might remember, that big old scary 2015 Federal Election happened way back in October. However, the Government only released the official results of the election just yesterday - go take a look at them, they're quite cool!In the meantime, here's the final official map of how each poll in E...
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Edmonton Ward 12 By-Election Results
Edmonton's Ward 12 by-election took place this week, and it had a historic 32 candidates running to sit on council. There were a couple of fun outcomes from this election that are worth taking a quick look at:Winning Vote TotalI didn't bother doing a full write-up on this, but I was curious at th...
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Edmonton's Ward 12 by-election took place this week, and it had a historic 32 candidates running to sit on council. There were a couple of fun outcomes from this election that are worth taking a quick look at:Winning Vote TotalI didn't bother doing a full write-up on this, but I was curious at th...
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Taxi Stats for Edmonton
The fight in Edmonton for Uber vs Taxis has finally reached its head today, with the final vote for the updated Vehicle for Hire bylaw to be debated by the end of the day (barring any disruptions to council).Potentially complicating matters is that this takes place during the very beginning...
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The fight in Edmonton for Uber vs Taxis has finally reached its head today, with the final vote for the updated Vehicle for Hire bylaw to be debated by the end of the day (barring any disruptions to council).Potentially complicating matters is that this takes place during the very beginning...
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Electoral Reform
In less than two weeks we're going to head to the polls and elect the 42nd Government of Canada. The elections process we use is pretty old and potentially outdated, and it's time that we started to take a proper look at how it works.A quick overview of what we currently have: on October 19th, yo...
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In less than two weeks we're going to head to the polls and elect the 42nd Government of Canada. The elections process we use is pretty old and potentially outdated, and it's time that we started to take a proper look at how it works.A quick overview of what we currently have: on October 19th, yo...
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Fortune Favours the Old
I had my birthday recently and, much like last year, got a joke present from a friend. This year though, it came with an explicit challenge to do something statistical with it. So for this blog post, my subject matter will be based on this box of fortune cookies:My willing victimSo what stats can...
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I had my birthday recently and, much like last year, got a joke present from a friend. This year though, it came with an explicit challenge to do something statistical with it. So for this blog post, my subject matter will be based on this box of fortune cookies:My willing victimSo what stats can...
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Canadian Inequality 2: Revenge of the CCPA
Like last year, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has come out with a ranking of the "The Best and Worst Places to be a Woman in Canada." Since I got so frustrated with the last one, I figured I'd do a quick follow-up on this one:The GoodCities are given an inequality score on each cate...
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Like last year, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has come out with a ranking of the "The Best and Worst Places to be a Woman in Canada." Since I got so frustrated with the last one, I figured I'd do a quick follow-up on this one:The GoodCities are given an inequality score on each cate...
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City Council Analysis
Back after the 2013 Edmonton municipal election, I did a quick analysis to see if I could predict who some of the new mayor Don Iveson's friends on council would be. My thought was that councillors with similar platforms to the mayor's, and who are potentially more likely to agree with him on vot...
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Back after the 2013 Edmonton municipal election, I did a quick analysis to see if I could predict who some of the new mayor Don Iveson's friends on council would be. My thought was that councillors with similar platforms to the mayor's, and who are potentially more likely to agree with him on vot...
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NHL Odds in a Best-of-7 Series
Last year, Andrew and I worked together to look at which NHL playoff game was the most critical to victory in an NHL series. He built such a lovely database of playoff series that I just couldn't pass up the opportunity to take another look at the problem.Before looking at real-world results, tho...
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Last year, Andrew and I worked together to look at which NHL playoff game was the most critical to victory in an NHL series. He built such a lovely database of playoff series that I just couldn't pass up the opportunity to take another look at the problem.Before looking at real-world results, tho...
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Reuniting the Alberta Right
After last week's Alberta election, several of Alberta's political pundits expressed frustration that the splitting of the vote on the right may have allowed for the NDP success that we saw on election night. Danielle Smith, for instance, said:Combined PC-WRP vote is 52%. NDP vote is 42%. #justsa...
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After last week's Alberta election, several of Alberta's political pundits expressed frustration that the splitting of the vote on the right may have allowed for the NDP success that we saw on election night. Danielle Smith, for instance, said:Combined PC-WRP vote is 52%. NDP vote is 42%. #justsa...
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Math is Difficult
Math can be difficult, so it's a good thing that Elections Alberta posts its unofficial elections results in a nice, easy-to-copy-into-Excel format!Now that the Alberta election is done, I figured I'd post a short post just showing visually where the party support bases were located. Nothing too ...
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Math can be difficult, so it's a good thing that Elections Alberta posts its unofficial elections results in a nice, easy-to-copy-into-Excel format!Now that the Alberta election is done, I figured I'd post a short post just showing visually where the party support bases were located. Nothing too ...
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2012 Alberta Election Results Poll by Poll
There's only one week left until the provincial election!I figure this as good a time as any to remind everyone of the full results from 2012. I'm going to do it a little differently than most map sources have. As an example, Wikipedia has this map of election results for each of the 87 elec...
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There's only one week left until the provincial election!I figure this as good a time as any to remind everyone of the full results from 2012. I'm going to do it a little differently than most map sources have. As an example, Wikipedia has this map of election results for each of the 87 elec...
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Election Tours of Alberta
As of today, we are officially halfway through the 2015 Alberta provincial election! Has it been as much fun for you as it has been for me yet?At the same time as we pick our Alberta government, over in the United Kingdom voters there are also going through a general election. This has gotten a f...
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As of today, we are officially halfway through the 2015 Alberta provincial election! Has it been as much fun for you as it has been for me yet?At the same time as we pick our Alberta government, over in the United Kingdom voters there are also going through a general election. This has gotten a f...
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