[EM] Yee-Bolson Diagrams
Forrest Simmons has mentioned Yee-Bolson Diagrams, and I am aware of (and admire) the work by Ka-Ping Yee, but as somebody not that familiar with the election theory literature, I don't understand the reference to Bolson or who he (or she) is. Could somebody give me a pointer? Best, Leon Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
Re: [EM] Yee-Bolson Diagrams
Hi Leon, --- En date de : Jeu 6.1.11, Leon Smith leon.p.sm...@gmail.com a écrit : Forrest Simmons has mentioned Yee-Bolson Diagrams, and I am aware of (and admire) the work by Ka-Ping Yee, but as somebody not that familiar with the election theory literature, I don't understand the reference to Bolson or who he (or she) is. Could somebody give me a pointer? Best, Leon That is probably Brian Olson: http://bolson.org/ A number of us made Yee-style pictures, I guess Brian did also. Kevin Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
Re: [EM] Yee-Bolson Diagrams
Ahh, well, I do intend on making some of my own diagrams at some point when I get around to it. It is a very cool idea. Thanks, Leon On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Kevin Venzke step...@yahoo.fr wrote: Hi Leon, --- En date de : Jeu 6.1.11, Leon Smith leon.p.sm...@gmail.com a écrit : Forrest Simmons has mentioned Yee-Bolson Diagrams, and I am aware of (and admire) the work by Ka-Ping Yee, but as somebody not that familiar with the election theory literature, I don't understand the reference to Bolson or who he (or she) is. Could somebody give me a pointer? Best, Leon That is probably Brian Olson: http://bolson.org/ A number of us made Yee-style pictures, I guess Brian did also. Kevin Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
Re: [EM] Yee-Bolson Diagrams
specifically, my results are here: http://bolson.org/voting/sim_one_seat/ http://bolson.org/voting/sim_one_seat/www/ Ka Ping Yee did them first. I think I did them second and bigger and more. I haven't done any in a while, but my source is out there and there are other implementations as well. On Jan 6, 2011, at 9:26 AM, Leon Smith wrote: Forrest Simmons has mentioned Yee-Bolson Diagrams, and I am aware of (and admire) the work by Ka-Ping Yee, but as somebody not that familiar with the election theory literature, I don't understand the reference to Bolson or who he (or she) is. Could somebody give me a pointer? Best, Leon Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
Re: [EM] Yee-Bolson Diagrams for Lotteries
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 5:34 AM, Brian Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I actually already have a mode in my program to run multiple elections at each point and average the color of the winners over those rounds. However, that randomness is due to the random distribution of the voters. With a random election method, you could probably save time by just using the probabilities as determined by the method. There is no point in running multiple election passes. Also, when I implemented a version, I had the voter popsition being fixed rather than randomly determined. Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
Re: [EM] Yee-Bolson Diagrams for Lotteries
It would also be possible to support more than 3 if you are willing to accept some ambiguous pixels. You could give each candidate a colour and then blend the colours in proportion to the probability. For a method which has reasonably sharp edges to the win regions, this could be reasonably effective. For something where all candidates have a reasonably high probability over the entire diagram, it wouldn't be as effective as you would have mixing of colours. However, for a method which gives the winner close to 100% for most of the diagram, then only in the border regions would there be mixed pixels. Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
