Defense Indexes vs. Mass Shooting

Political post here.

Gun Deaths in America: Suicides, Homicides, "Mass Shooting Tracker" Data

Gun Deaths in America: Suicides, Homicides, "Mass Shooting Tracker" Data. Code below. Political piece here.

2015 Whatcom County GE: GIS Code Part I

Whatcom County 2015 GE Votes Good Per Precinct by quartile class interval.  Click to Enlarge.  More maps and political piece here

2015 Whatcom County GE: GIS Code Part II

County Executive difference per precinct (Jack Louws - Joy Gilfilen). Click to Enlarge.  More maps and political piece here.

Voting Analysis Code for 2015

 By precinct diffs. Those points above the horizontal blue 0 line are precincts that sided with Jack Luows. Those points left of the vertical red 0 line are precincts that voted against the jail.   (Vertical Axis: (Louws - Gilfilen) ~ Horizontal Axis ( Jail_Yes - Jail_No)) . Strong relationships are revealed between those precincts voting  more for Jack and the Jail  (far right) and those voting more for Joy and not for the Jail (bottom left).  The dense 'crook' in the middle of the graph represents those precincts still mostly totaling for Jack  Luows but very split in voting for or against the jail.  Click to enlarge.

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Introducing xi (11.71875 or 187.5/16) : A trans-dimensional constant that links pi and e ?

In this code, I introduce 'xi'  (11.71875) a constant with strong relationships to both pi and e . 'Xi' (11.71875 or (187.5/16)) is a 'translator constant' between powers of 2 and 16.  More than simply being an efficient means to compute pi or e (e.g. 'Eulers number'), 'Xi' may 'interpolate' between pi and e, giving science the means to measure logarithmic growth patterns of increasing radii. This may make it useful for gravitational and rotational calculations. It is possible that the 187.5 cm-3 pc represents some fixed attenuation limit  (see http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.05245) for radio wave signals that require either boosting or chirping.  The relationships between pi, e, and xi (187.5./16 = 11.71875) may represent fixed constants descriptive of all  EM signaling. In addition, the constants that describe the circumscribing of an octahedron (sqrt(1/2)) and (sqrt(1/6)) can also be used to derive xi with a factor close to 9/16.  I am neither mathematician, scientist, or statistician. So all of this code is supposition and a work in progress. -RMF

Matchback Code for GE 2015

Political pieces:  Matchbacks dated October/November 2015

Code for summarizing voterdb by profile

Political piece here.

Code to establish voter roll 'flux' in time series...

 11:53 AM 10/3/2015 - RMF Political piece here.

Booking Recidivism code and more

Code to look at 'Booking Recidivism'. Political piece is here. R based animation is here.

Prototyping analysis of summary of BPD Offenses: Summary Data

Political piece is here.

An Analysis of Whatcom County Jail Press Releases: Word Counts, Word Clouds, Relational Graphs,Criminogenic Cycle : Part II

Political piece is here.

An Analysis of Whatcom County Jail Press Releases: Word Counts, Word Clouds, Relational Graphs,Criminogenic Cycles: Part I

Political piece is here. 

Code to analyze racial composition in Washington Jails.

Political piece for this code is here. There are two separate R files below.

Code for Whatcom Jail Booking Press Release Data for 2015 (January 1 - June 19)

Political piece is here. Web query code is unpublished.  Project and Data Analysis are ongoing and subject to revision. -RMF

GF-S Expenditure/Revenue Code

Political piece here. Click on the massive graphic above to enlarge.

Growth rates in WA Counties and Cities

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More Code for FBI UCR, WASPC, OFM WA SAC data

Political piece is here. Code below:

Code for FBI UCR, WASPC, OFM WA SAC data

"For years, my native city of Oakland, CA has poured millions of dollars of our general fund and other monies into our possible department and city jail; fighting what is often a pitched war against narcotics trafficking and the social results of narcotics trafficking. The battle never seems to have  a winner, just brief respites.  A brief respite in Oakland ( a city of 400K ) means 60 - 80 homicides a year. Full pitched casualties in a year of pitched battle means 150 - 160 homicides.  To give you some example of what that war feels like to civilians: In 2013, the state of WA (pop then 6.8M) had 129 homicides.  When you grow up inside that war, you hear gunfire on a weekly basis. You know what it is like to be shot at with automatic gunfire.  You see guns, drugs, and gang presences frequently enough to where to walk at what risk level when." from http://www.bellinghampoliticsandeconomics.com/2015/03/thought-about-new-jail-selected-violent.html  .  Code below the break.

Code to look at Maplight 2014 Cycle

Code to look at ERIC updates

Under Construction
To make this code work you need to ask your election official to include the fields:

StatusReason
LastUpdateDate
UserCode1 # ERIC update flag

in your voter history.

Part I : Children in Poverty and Homelessness

Children in Poverty in Whatcom County School Districts. Political piece here.

Part II : Children in Poverty and Homelessness

OSPI K - 12 homelessness data for WA Schools. Political piece here.

R code to look at Voter Age in Buckets

Some GIS Electoral Code Examples: Part II

Some GIS electoral code examples: Part I

Is there a relationship between turnout and voter updates?

Is there a relationship between turnout and voter updates?

This is code to chart relationships between voter last updates and turnout per precinct. Political piece here. Under Construction 9:31 AM 1/7/2015 -RMF