Comments on: RaceTracker is a Hit http://insideelections.shapethefuture.org/2008/06/17/racetracker-is-a-hit/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:28:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Christopher Schmidt http://insideelections.shapethefuture.org/2008/06/17/racetracker-is-a-hit/#comment-396 Christopher Schmidt Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:08:52 +0000 http://insideelections.wordpress.com/?p=357#comment-396 I really appreciate the way RaceTracker segregates the data by vote type! Two elections ago I really liked the way you could get data for all the precincts. Last election I was disappointed that you could select only one precinct at a time. This election I'm a bit happier because you can select more than one precinct, but you can only display 4 precincts at a time, and the "next page" button is broken, so you have to manually select the 4 precincts you want rather than using the paging buttons. Pages are inconvenient. I'd like to see data for all the precincts selected displayed on a single web page. What I'd REALLY like is the ability to download a spreadsheet with segregated data for all the precincts and all the vote types. CSV, tab-delimited, whatever, but HTML tables and PDF's are the least useful formats for tabular data. Thanks! I really appreciate the way RaceTracker segregates the data by vote type!

Two elections ago I really liked the way you could get data for all the precincts.

Last election I was disappointed that you could select only one precinct at a time.

This election I’m a bit happier because you can select more than one precinct, but you can only display 4 precincts at a time, and the “next page” button is broken, so you have to manually select the 4 precincts you want rather than using the paging buttons. Pages are inconvenient. I’d like to see data for all the precincts selected displayed on a single web page.

What I’d REALLY like is the ability to download a spreadsheet with segregated data for all the precincts and all the vote types. CSV, tab-delimited, whatever, but HTML tables and PDF’s are the least useful formats for tabular data.

Thanks!

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