jluby / class-2018-11-26

Calculating the Winner in Maine 2nd Congressional District

Consider the raw votes in the 2018 election for the 2nd Congressional District in Maine. Maine uses ranked choice voting, a system which allows votes to provide a rank for each candidate on the ballot. This repo contains the raw Excel files, which allows us to replicate the state's calculations.

Step 1

Go from the raw xlsx files to the format in tibble_1. In other words, your Rmd file should begin with just the files in the repo and create a tibble with the same variables (and with rows in the same order!) as what you see in tibble_1.

Step 2

Go from tibble_1 in tibble_2. Don't worry about the raw files. Start with what you have in tibble_1, which can be read in using read_rds(). Produce a tibble with the same variables/ordering as tibble_2.

Step 3

Start with tibble_2. (That is, the beginning of your Rmd file just reads in tibble_2.rds.) Create ggplot2 graphic which looks like the one on base_plot.rds. (You can see what this is by just reading it that file and printing out the object which it creates.)

Step 4

Create an Rmd file which, when knitted, looks like me_2.html.