How did Erdoğan win? An analysis of the Turkish Referendum Results

Summary On April 16, Turkey held a constitutional referendum while the country was still under the state of emergency declared last summer after the failed coup attempt. The constitutional change involves a transition from the current parliamentary system to a presidential system that transfers the executive power to the president who appoints all ministers and […]

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D’Hondt Method

The D’Hondt method, designed in 1878 by Victor D’Hondt, Belgian lawyer and mathematician, is a highest averages method for allocating seats in party-list proportional representation. Taking the total number of seats to assign and the amounts of votes for the parties as input, it calculates the seat numbers for each party. In the example below, […]

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Seçim Simülatörü 2015

Ulusal oy oranlarından meclis dağılımı tahmini yapan bir web uygulaması hazırladık. Bu uygulamayı kullanarak seçim barajının meclis sandalye dağılımı ve olası hükümet senaryolarına olan etkilerini inceleyebilir, seçim tahminlerinizi başkalarıyla paylaşabilirsiniz. Uygulamamız 1 Kasım 2015 genel seçimlerinde kullanabilmeniz için güncellenmiştir. Simülatörü Kasım 2015 genel seçimleri için güncellediniz mi? Evet. Uygulamamızı Haziran 2015 sonuçlarını kullanarak Kasım 2015 […]

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The Information is Beautiful Awards

Cem was at the inaugural Information is Beautiful Awards ceremony & party at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London because our work Metallica on Stage was shortlisted in the Data Journalism category. The Awards were created in partnership by leading data visualisation studio Information is Beautiful and world leader in research and insight Kantar as the […]

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Hollywood Economics

In January 2012, The Information is Beautiful Awards launched a data visualization challenge for Hollywood films from 2007–2011, providing an “ultra-comprehensive dataset that lifts the lid on opening weekends, worldwide gross, budgets, storylines, review scores – everything – for every Hollywood film released in the last five years.” (Some movies that were released in late 2011 do […]

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