http://realitybiased.com Demographics, Polling, GIS, Data Mining Sat, 11 Nov 2006 19:46:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The image shows the Southern Front range of Colorado Presidential Voting Index split by Colo House Districts. PVI is a measure of the 2004 Kerry-Bush voting results. Click on the image for a larger view. http://realitybiased.com/archives/19 The image shows the Presidential Voting Index (Kerry-Bush) across Colorado's Northern front range state house districts. County lines split the districts, so all of Windsor is actually in HD49. Purple is about even, Violet is Republican. Weld county is deep red, which is not as Republican as bright red would be ... http://realitybiased.com/archives/17 In These Times published a great artical April 14, 2005 comparing the VLWC and the VRWC. Here is a link to the PDF file of the VLWC diagram from the ITT article. VLWC from ITT http://realitybiased.com/archives/15 Ed Perlmutter and Rick O'Donnell are the 2006 House candidates in CO-07. Although voter registration across the district is approximately evenly split. Kerry won the district by 52% to 45% in 2004. The table shows County voting results for district CD-07. County Kerry Bush PVI Dem Reg Rep Reg ... http://realitybiased.com/archives/13 2004 Kerry-Bush voting is available by county from the Secretary of State's office. A Presidential Voting Index (PVI) can be created by transforming the county results to the House district via an estimation process. Colorado population density is very small over much of the state, so the PVI map is ... http://realitybiased.com/archives/8 From Pollster.com insertChartSmall('http://www.pollster.com/swf/ChartSmall.swf?file=CO07Hou.xml&poll=all',365,250); http://realitybiased.com/archives/7 Welcome to Reality Biased. This website is dedicated to data-mining applied to political & demographic data, "psycho-graphics", opinion polling and historical voting results. Observables of interest: Dimensionality and Metrics, Cross-tabs or Dis-aggregation and GIS. Report format: Title, Talking Points, Executive Summary, Discussion, Data, References, Image or Graphics with Impact. Inspired by ... http://realitybiased.com/archives/1