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Show HN: Spanish election results – D3 newsapp

62 points by martgnz 11y ago

drKarl 11y ago
Is that a new right-ish wing newspaper? I see the president is Pedro J Ramirez...
- fravelgue 11y ago
  Yes, It´s a new digital newspaper. I think they are doing many things well.
- apoz 11y ago
  Yes, he got kicked out from "El Mundo" and created this new online paper with the (big) compensation he was paid.
  - eb0la 11y ago
    They also hit a (world) record crowdfunding for new media.
drKarl 11y ago
Good app nevertheless, I like the fact that you can zoom in and see detailed results
mtharrison 11y ago
Cool app and use of D3. It would be nice if you can see what regions/towns you're hovering over before you click though.
- MMateus 11y ago
  I agree. Would be nice to see the region/towns name, as well as the winner name and percentage of votes. Other aspect is the click in the zoom out (magnifier) when you are focused in a town: it goes back to the country view, when I would expect to go back to the region view. Nevertheless, nice job!
  - martgnz 11y ago
    Thanks for all your suggestions! Yes, we thought about implementing the hover, but we didn't have time for it. It can be tricky as well regarding performance, so we discarded it for this elections.
    - hobarrera 11y ago
      Have you thought about open-sourcing this? I'd love to see this same thing for elections elsewhere.
      - lukas_appelhans 11y ago
        Yes, we have the general concensus with the newspaper to open source this. Not 100% sure when it will happen, but should be soon. :)
alvatar 11y ago
As a Spaniard, I find it amusing to see the election results in Hacker News from the geeky perspective "cool app".
- martgnz 11y ago
  The truth is that we like it as well.
mrtree 11y ago
First of all, Pedro J. Ramírez ... buaaargh <vomiting> Having saiud that, it is a pretty cool way to show information, yet it could be better. That way of showing the data is a bit biased and over represents PP/PSOE. At the end of the day, let's say PP "won" in Madrid, they will not be able to appoint the major anyways, cause Ahora Madrid will ally with PSOE. So basically... a bit useless. Also, "Otros" is 29.7% of the votes!!
- pmelendez 11y ago
  > "Also, "Otros" is 29.7% of the votes!! " When you check Navarra the "Otros" category makes sense. There are like 10 different organizations and N/A data over there. That said, I think that 29% is actually a good thing. A more diverse congress is also a more independent one.
  - martgnz 11y ago
    We basically set a cutoff when a party earned less than a two percent of votes. The table would be huge then :)
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geromek 11y ago
8 comments so far... I bet all of them were written by Spaniards.. God job anyway :-p
- pmelendez 11y ago
  > I bet all of them were written by Spaniards.. I can guarantee that at least one comment is not by a Spaniard.
eb0la 11y ago
That's very cool; both from a technical and a journalistic perspective. Technically, this is the only application available with this data granularity. The people at El Español is showing very cool stuff to the people instead of publishing what we called "zero numbers" - in printed press those were real papers not released to the public that allowed to tune how your company departments interacted between them and providers (like the printer).
- martgnz 11y ago
  Thanks! We didn't even expect being on HN frontpage :). We tried to do an 'editorialized' newsapp rather than being a simple API of the results.
pmelendez 11y ago
One question to the Spaniard Community in HN. What's really going on with the Podemos (we-can) party. I read this article moments ago: http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-eu-27579898 http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-eu-27579898 which says the party got %8 but I don't even see the party on OP graph. What I am missing? EDIT: NM, Got confused with the date of the article.
- drKarl 11y ago
  On the municipal (for major) elections, in many cities, Podemos went with a coalition with other left-wing parties (like Equo, IU, etc) with a different name on each city (ie Ahora Madrid in Madrid, or Barcelona en comú in Barcelona)

62 points by martgnz 11y ago

drKarl 11y ago

Is that a new right-ish wing newspaper? I see the president is Pedro J Ramirez...

fravelgue 11y ago
Yes, It´s a new digital newspaper. I think they are doing many things well.
apoz 11y ago
Yes, he got kicked out from "El Mundo" and created this new online paper with the (big) compensation he was paid.
- eb0la 11y ago
  They also hit a (world) record crowdfunding for new media.

drKarl 11y ago

Good app nevertheless, I like the fact that you can zoom in and see detailed results

mtharrison 11y ago

Cool app and use of D3. It would be nice if you can see what regions/towns you're hovering over before you click though.

MMateus 11y ago
I agree. Would be nice to see the region/towns name, as well as the winner name and percentage of votes. Other aspect is the click in the zoom out (magnifier) when you are focused in a town: it goes back to the country view, when I would expect to go back to the region view. Nevertheless, nice job!
- martgnz 11y ago
  Thanks for all your suggestions! Yes, we thought about implementing the hover, but we didn't have time for it. It can be tricky as well regarding performance, so we discarded it for this elections.
  - hobarrera 11y ago
    Have you thought about open-sourcing this? I'd love to see this same thing for elections elsewhere.
    - lukas_appelhans 11y ago
      Yes, we have the general concensus with the newspaper to open source this. Not 100% sure when it will happen, but should be soon. :)

alvatar 11y ago

As a Spaniard, I find it amusing to see the election results in Hacker News from the geeky perspective "cool app".

martgnz 11y ago
The truth is that we like it as well.

mrtree 11y ago

First of all, Pedro J. Ramírez ... buaaargh <vomiting> Having saiud that, it is a pretty cool way to show information, yet it could be better. That way of showing the data is a bit biased and over represents PP/PSOE. At the end of the day, let's say PP "won" in Madrid, they will not be able to appoint the major anyways, cause Ahora Madrid will ally with PSOE. So basically... a bit useless. Also, "Otros" is 29.7% of the votes!!

pmelendez 11y ago
> "Also, "Otros" is 29.7% of the votes!! " When you check Navarra the "Otros" category makes sense. There are like 10 different organizations and N/A data over there. That said, I think that 29% is actually a good thing. A more diverse congress is also a more independent one.
- martgnz 11y ago
  We basically set a cutoff when a party earned less than a two percent of votes. The table would be huge then :)

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geromek 11y ago

8 comments so far... I bet all of them were written by Spaniards.. God job anyway :-p

pmelendez 11y ago
> I bet all of them were written by Spaniards.. I can guarantee that at least one comment is not by a Spaniard.

eb0la 11y ago

That's very cool; both from a technical and a journalistic perspective. Technically, this is the only application available with this data granularity. The people at El Español is showing very cool stuff to the people instead of publishing what we called "zero numbers" - in printed press those were real papers not released to the public that allowed to tune how your company departments interacted between them and providers (like the printer).

martgnz 11y ago
Thanks! We didn't even expect being on HN frontpage :). We tried to do an 'editorialized' newsapp rather than being a simple API of the results.

pmelendez 11y ago

One question to the Spaniard Community in HN. What's really going on with the Podemos (we-can) party. I read this article moments ago: http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-eu-27579898 http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-eu-27579898 which says the party got %8 but I don't even see the party on OP graph. What I am missing? EDIT: NM, Got confused with the date of the article.

drKarl 11y ago
On the municipal (for major) elections, in many cities, Podemos went with a coalition with other left-wing parties (like Equo, IU, etc) with a different name on each city (ie Ahora Madrid in Madrid, or Barcelona en comú in Barcelona)