Hack the Survey
I had been looking for a good coding project for a while, to try and build some confidence before I attempted a hackathon, when a friend posted a link to a great map based representation of the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey results. It was a nice clean map that provided a mouse-over pop-up of the yes/no percentage for each electorate which I found it really interesting, but I also wanted some more information. Information on things like the number of voters, the member holding that seat, the party they are from, what suburbs where in each electorate, and maybe even some census data. Thus the project was formed. As always, the 80:20 rule was proved true when I got the map up with the basic info the following day, but being a perfectionist (with a small child and a few other project on the go), it has taken me quite a bit longer to show it off but here it is: 2017 Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey - Results Map (The site is hosted on shinyapps.i...