Buliding A Fast Turn-Around Election Tracker - Stream Notes for November 6 2020 LiveCoding

youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZwpk5HrTQw

Notes

Seeing if I can build my own election tracker before the election is over.

Made it (with like, a day to spare).

Used an existing feed and spent most of the time on formatting.

The real thing I was after was seeing how many estimated votes were necessary (and the percentage) for a candidate to win a state. It was a fun exercise.

Links From The Stream

• /nyt-2020-election-scraper/master/results.json
• Alaska Election Results - The New York Times
• alex/nyt-2020-election-scraper
• Data | MIT Election Lab
• Election 2020 Results
• Google Search: calculate percentage one number is of another
• Google Search: election raw data
• Google Search: election results #election2020
• Google Search: grep one level deep
• Google Search: pennsylvania
• Google Search: python add commas to numbers
• Google Search: python flip sign
• Google Search: remember, rember
• How to Calculate the Percentage of Another Number
• Percentage Calculator
• Python | Reverse sign of each element in given list - GeeksforGeeks
• Reverse Integer in Python
• Stack Overflow: Python Add Comma Into Number String
• Stack Overflow: Reverse sign function returns none