PHILADELPHIA, USA – Avencia announces the public release of its “Philadelphia Election Results, 1992-2008” web-based application. The application runs on Avencia’s Kaleidocade Indicators Framework (KIF), which enables users to visualise, interpret, and map large datasets. In the case of the “Philadelphia Election Results, 1992-2008” application, the dataset includes over 4 million records and holds the results of elections held in Philadelphia for all state and national offices from 1992 to 2008, along with the results of the 2007 elections for city offices, both at the precinct and the ward levels.
With this new application of Avencia’s Kaleidocade technology, users can both generate simple reports based on an address and assemble fine-tuned collections of indicators by selecting particular candidates and geographies. Visualising election results on a map enables users to detect spatial patterns in candidate performance. The data can also be examined in a table (including trendlines of candidate performance over time), viewed as statistical summaries like distribution histograms, or compared through ranked lists of results.
This application serves as an example of how the Kaleidocade Indicators Framework software can be used by elections commissions to share data with the public. Offering historical election data through a web application also has the advantage of making public records requests a self-serve process that can reduce the burden on elections commissions’ personnel.
