Friday, April 24, 2009

SA Elections

I've been tracking the counts for the South African elections for over 24 hours now.  

These have then been posted on my twitter and facebook profile and some of them even made their way onto the News24 website.

Most of my posts have been about the national results as well as the results for the Western Cape.

The statistics were retrieved from the IEC website and then transferred to a spreadsheet on google docs.  I had a specially created field in the spreadsheet that would allow me to easily post the result on twitter

I love numbers and analysis, which why I probably love my job (systems and web analyst), and so this process of tracking has been quite fun.  My family and friends have started coming up with weird nicknames for me though.... like 'elections nerd' and making comments about my status on facebook (stats, stats and stats).

I'm incredibly excited and proud to be a part of this whole experience....!

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