This post is an update to the article here: How has sentiment towards Victoria’s lock-down changed over time? It is quite clear to most in Melbourne that public opinion towards the lock-down has changed over its duration. We…unemployedgrad2020.medium.com If you haven’t read it, it may be of use to get some context for this project. Here, I tracked the overall sentiment of comments in the daily r/melbourne Covid discussion threads from the 27th of September to the 23rd of…

It is quite clear to most in Melbourne that public opinion towards the lock-down has changed over its duration. We notice shifts in both the support for lock-down policy itself and changes in our sentiment towards living under these restrictions. These two phenomenon are not necessarily linked; one can become…

To the frustration of many students, the University of Melbourne does not publish average weighted average marks (WAMs) for the various degree programs offered. In order to remedy this absence and provide students with a sense of their relative standing, I created a survey giving students the opportunity to report…

What would Australia look like if we moved away from a single-member district, majoritarian electoral rule and adopted a proportional representation (PR) system in the House of Representatives? In this article I examine what Australia’s Federal Parliament (specifically, the lower house, where government is formed) might have looked like under…

I recently wrote an article theorizing what Australian Parliament could look like under PR electoral systems. You can find it here: What would Australia look like with proportional representation? What would Australia look like if we moved away from a single-member district, majoritarian electoral rule and adopted…medium.com This article just contains the (quite shabby) code used to obtain the results featured in the above article. For instance, since I had previously created the functions that assign…

I’ve recently started a series on various approaches to forecasting the results of elections in the Victorian Legislative Assembly and testing how good of a job they would have done for the 2018 election. The models tested so far have all been taken from Electoral Calculus (https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/)and are essentially deterministic…