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Show HN: Spanish election results – D3 newsapp

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62 pointsmartgnz21 comments

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

The truth is that we like it as well.

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).

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.

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.

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!

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.

Have you thought about open-sourcing this? I'd love to see this same thing for elections elsewhere.

Yes, we have the general concensus with the newspaper to open source this. Not 100% sure when it will happen, but should be soon. :)

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 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.

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)

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!!

> "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.

We basically set a cutoff when a party earned less than a two percent of votes. The table would be huge then :)

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

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

Yes, he got kicked out from "El Mundo" and created this new online paper with the (big) compensation he was paid.