From enobacon at gmail.com Fri Mar 2 00:13:59 2012 From: enobacon at gmail.com (Seven till Seven) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 00:13:59 -0800 Subject: [Pdx-pm] Meeting next Thursday -- VoteFair ranking: Math-based voting power for the 99% Message-ID: <201203020014.00215.enobacon@gmail.com> Thu. March 8th, 6:53pm at FreeGeek - 1731 SE 10th Ave. Presenter: Richard Fobes The new CPAN module named Voting::VoteFairRanking yields higher levels of voting fairness. You do voting when you click on Google results, and you use voting results when you view the star rating of an Amazon product. Now learn how voting really works, how it is usually miscalculated ? intentionally in the case of elections ? and how it can be done to fully extract the wisdom in a group. Learn the math behind the puppet strings that connect politicians (of both parties) to the biggest campaign contributors. (Partial spoiler: The biggest unfairness is hidden in primary elections.) Also learn the math that eventually will cut those puppet strings. Along the way you will learn that there are different kinds of popularity. As usual, the meeting will be followed by social hour at the Lucky Lab. -- http://pdx.pm.org From enobacon at gmail.com Thu Mar 8 00:02:49 2012 From: enobacon at gmail.com (Seven till Seven) Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 00:02:49 -0800 Subject: [Pdx-pm] meeting tonight -- VoteFair ranking: Math-based voting power for the 99% Message-ID: <201203080002.49815.enobacon@gmail.com> Thu. March 8th, 6:53pm at FreeGeek - 1731 SE 10th Ave. Presenter: Richard Fobes The new CPAN module named Voting::VoteFairRanking yields higher levels of voting fairness. You do voting when you click on Google results, and you use voting results when you view the star rating of an Amazon product. Now learn how voting really works, how it is usually miscalculated ? intentionally in the case of elections ? and how it can be done to fully extract the wisdom in a group. Learn the math behind the puppet strings that connect politicians (of both parties) to the biggest campaign contributors. (Partial spoiler: The biggest unfairness is hidden in primary elections.) Also learn the math that eventually will cut those puppet strings. Along the way you will learn that there are different kinds of popularity. As usual, the meeting will be followed by social hour at the Lucky Lab. -- http://pdx.pm.org From clone206 at gmail.com Thu Mar 8 16:59:30 2012 From: clone206 at gmail.com (Kevin) Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 16:59:30 -0800 Subject: [Pdx-pm] meeting tonight -- VoteFair ranking: Math-based voting power for the 99% In-Reply-To: <201203080002.49815.enobacon@gmail.com> References: <201203080002.49815.enobacon@gmail.com> Message-ID: Will there be a webcast? - Kevin W On Mar 8, 2012, at 12:02 AM, Seven till Seven wrote: > Thu. March 8th, 6:53pm at FreeGeek - 1731 SE 10th Ave. > > Presenter: Richard Fobes > > The new CPAN module named Voting::VoteFairRanking yields higher levels > of voting fairness. You do voting when you click on Google results, and > you use voting results when you view the star rating of an Amazon > product. > > Now learn how voting really works, how it is usually miscalculated ? > intentionally in the case of elections ? and how it can be done to > fully extract the wisdom in a group. Learn the math behind the puppet > strings that connect politicians (of both parties) to the biggest > campaign contributors. (Partial spoiler: The biggest unfairness is > hidden in primary elections.) Also learn the math that eventually will > cut those puppet strings. Along the way you will learn that there are > different kinds of popularity. > > As usual, the meeting will be followed by social hour at the Lucky Lab. > -- > > http://pdx.pm.org > _______________________________________________ > Pdx-pm-list mailing list > Pdx-pm-list at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/pdx-pm-list From zak.zebrowski at gmail.com Thu Mar 8 20:50:21 2012 From: zak.zebrowski at gmail.com (Zachary Zebrowski) Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 23:50:21 -0500 Subject: [Pdx-pm] meeting tonight -- VoteFair ranking: Math-based voting power for the 99% In-Reply-To: References: <201203080002.49815.enobacon@gmail.com> Message-ID: I would be interested in the presentation too. Zak (from DC). On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Kevin wrote: > Will there be a webcast? > > - Kevin W > > On Mar 8, 2012, at 12:02 AM, Seven till Seven wrote: > > > Thu. March 8th, 6:53pm at FreeGeek - 1731 SE 10th Ave. > > > > Presenter: Richard Fobes > > > > The new CPAN module named Voting::VoteFairRanking yields higher levels > > of voting fairness. You do voting when you click on Google results, and > > you use voting results when you view the star rating of an Amazon > > product. > > > > Now learn how voting really works, how it is usually miscalculated ? > > intentionally in the case of elections ? and how it can be done to > > fully extract the wisdom in a group. Learn the math behind the puppet > > strings that connect politicians (of both parties) to the biggest > > campaign contributors. (Partial spoiler: The biggest unfairness is > > hidden in primary elections.) Also learn the math that eventually will > > cut those puppet strings. Along the way you will learn that there are > > different kinds of popularity. > > > > As usual, the meeting will be followed by social hour at the Lucky Lab. > > -- > > > > http://pdx.pm.org > > _______________________________________________ > > Pdx-pm-list mailing list > > Pdx-pm-list at pm.org > > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/pdx-pm-list > > _______________________________________________ > Pdx-pm-list mailing list > Pdx-pm-list at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/pdx-pm-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kellert at ohsu.edu Fri Mar 9 09:16:44 2012 From: kellert at ohsu.edu (Tom Keller) Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 09:16:44 -0800 Subject: [Pdx-pm] graphing a time series Message-ID: <65FEA58C-6965-4DA2-ACA9-3489EF5C75E7@ohsu.edu> Hi, A non-perl solution (but integrates nicely with Perl) is the use of R for the data and GGobi for the graphics. Regarding last nights talk. The most interesting part from a programming poi was what looked like an implementation of dynamic programming to order the candidates by 1-n voting. Could we have a talk that goes into that in more detail sometime? thanks for an interesting evening. Tom MMI DNA Services Core Facility 503-494-2442 kellert at ohsu.edu Office: 6588 RJH (CROET/BasicScience) OHSU Shared Resources -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From joshua at keroes.com Fri Mar 9 09:27:28 2012 From: joshua at keroes.com (Joshua Keroes) Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 09:27:28 -0800 Subject: [Pdx-pm] graphing a time series In-Reply-To: <65FEA58C-6965-4DA2-ACA9-3489EF5C75E7@ohsu.edu> References: <65FEA58C-6965-4DA2-ACA9-3489EF5C75E7@ohsu.edu> Message-ID: Thanks for the talk Robert! Last night I mentioned: HighCharts (JS): http://www.highcharts.com/and Dancer using HighCharts: http://advent.perldancer.org/2011/14 Cheers, Joshua -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enobacon at gmail.com Fri Mar 9 23:18:33 2012 From: enobacon at gmail.com (Eric Wilhelm) Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 23:18:33 -0800 Subject: [Pdx-pm] meeting tonight -- VoteFair ranking: Math-based voting power for the 99% In-Reply-To: References: <201203080002.49815.enobacon@gmail.com> Message-ID: <201203092318.33481.enobacon@gmail.com> # from Kevin # on Thursday 08 March 2012 16:59: >Will there be a webcast? There is a podcast uploaded to pdxpm.enobacon.com and selected slides are at http://www.votefair.org/handout.html. Richard is planning to put together a video presentation of slides and audio, which is probably easier to follow than audio-only (the purpose of the podcast is, of course, to make you wish that you had come to the meeting in person.) --Eric -- "It is a mistake to allow any mechanical object to realize that you are in a hurry." --Ralph's Observation --------------------------------------------------- http://scratchcomputing.com --------------------------------------------------- From brian.kurle at ieee.org Sat Mar 10 08:06:16 2012 From: brian.kurle at ieee.org (Brian Kurle) Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 08:06:16 -0800 Subject: [Pdx-pm] meeting tonight -- VoteFair ranking: Math-based voting power for the 99% In-Reply-To: <201203092318.33481.enobacon@gmail.com> References: <201203080002.49815.enobacon@gmail.com> <201203092318.33481.enobacon@gmail.com> Message-ID: <0D8B3992-CC70-4E1D-A465-47CF2DE1304E@ieee.org> On Mar 9, 2012, at 11:18 PM, Eric Wilhelm wrote: > # from Kevin > # on Thursday 08 March 2012 16:59: > >> Will there be a webcast? > > There is a podcast uploaded to pdxpm.enobacon.com and selected slides > are at http://www.votefair.org/handout.html. ... Thanks! It is most appreciated. > --Eric From ElectionMethods at VoteFair.org Sun Mar 11 21:36:01 2012 From: ElectionMethods at VoteFair.org (Richard Fobes) Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 21:36:01 -0700 Subject: [Pdx-pm] VoteFair ranking, presentation followup (Math-based voting power for the 99% ) Message-ID: <4F5D7D31.4080705@VoteFair.org> I greatly enjoyed the election-method-reform discussions that arose during my VoteFair ranking presentation, and afterward at the Lucky Lab. Thanks for the fun! If anyone here (even if you didn't attend my presentation) has any questions that arise after reading the documentation in the Voting::VoteFairRanking module, please ask. As I tried to emphasize in my presentation, election-method reform is long overdue! P.S. I don't know when I'll have time to create the movie that Eric told you about, but I hope to do so eventually. P.P.S. For anyone who didn't attend, I suggest looking at the Dashrep language I created. It powers lots of the VoteFair.org site and most of the NegotiationTool.com site. The Dashrep engine is on the CPAN archives. Overview, tutorial, interactive demo, etc. are at: Dashrep.org P.P.P.S. Today I saw that the Occupy movement is trying to experiment with better voting methods, and they don't seem to have lots of contact with programmers, so that might be a symbiotically beneficial collaboration to explore. 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