dwillis

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by dwillis 1y ago
That's what I did.
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by dwillis 1y ago
Skepticism is a necessary trait in this type of work, for sure. I will say that the performance has improved substantially in the past year, and there are still PDFs that require a lot of work. We went with official precinct results for two
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by dwillis 1y ago
Totally reasonable view, and one of our volunteers actually got the law in Kansas changed to mandate electronic publishing of statewide precinct results in a structured format! But finding legislative champions for this issue isn't eas
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by dwillis 1y ago
Yes, thanks! Fixed.
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by dwillis 1y ago
In some cases that's true, but for many jurisdictions the results systems are third-party vendor platforms, too.
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by dwillis 1y ago
Many jurisdictions do risk-limiting audits using the original ballots, so futzing with the results wouldn't necessarily make that easier. Also, cast vote records are public in many states - those are records of each ballot cast. So peo
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by dwillis 1y ago
Yeah, this is a very well-traveled road, but LLMs have made some big improvements. If you asked me (the guy who wrote the original piece linked above) what I'd use if accuracy alone was the goal, probably would be AWS Textract. But acc
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Turning Congressional Job Listings into Data Using LLM(thescoop.org)
2 points by dwillis 2y ago|0 comments
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by dwillis 11y ago
For NYT story on name changes by women at marriage, we did an analysis of wedding announcements & released the results: https://github.com/TheUpshot/nyt_weddings .
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Maiden Names, on the Rise Again(nytimes.com)
5 points by dwillis 11y ago|1 comments
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by dwillis 15y ago
As the author of the original piece, it's hard to disagree.
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by dwillis 15y ago
I've used Navicat Premium with Postgres and have had no issues. Pricey, but it works.