Canada-2019

Last updated: 18 July 2019

This is the repository for the Election StatSheet 2019 Canadian election forecast. Hooray!

Current status: It's alive!

Notes to self

Directory structure

• /Canada-2019
  • /Code
    • /Data processing
    • /Modeling
  • /Data
    • /Processed
    • /Raw
      • /2004 results
      • /2006 results
      • /2008 results
      • /2011 results
      • /2015 results
      • /Demographics
    • /Shapefiles
  • /Output
    • /Model graphs
    • /Model testing
  • /Shiny-app

What's in the box?

• Code: All scripts, including data processing, model building, simulation, etc.
• Data: Raw data downloaded from websites (see repo wiki). After processing, the processed versions are saved to the Processed directory. Also, shapefiles for creating maps.
• Output: Things generally for publication.
• Shiny-app: Everything to be deployed with the Shiny app.

Acknowledgments

Thanks are in order to:

• Imane Baitsa and Jérémie Darrieu at Statistics Canada for pointing me to some archived data sources on the StatCan website;
• Kaushik Mohan for his R Shiny assistance; and
• Gabriel Guzman for light QA on the Shiny app.