I played around a little with maps for each division, but the file started getting very big very quickly – but it’s a really good idea. I’ll try and figure something out over the next little while – maybe using the google maps API on an additional tab within the app itself.

Yaz – I couldnt tell you. I struggle to get around class based analysis because of the big, but simple problem of actually defining “class” itself.

Don, those income figures are per week.

Bird of Paradox – thanks for picking that up. When I aggregated the electoral data by party, I completely forgot that Territorians feel the need to call their conservatives something completely different to the rest of the country. I’ll fix that up for the next release.

The election result data is for the seats as they were at each election.Booth by booth data would be interesting (and maybe something for the future) – but with over 7000 booths, it would be an absolutely enormous process, not only breaking down election results of the past into seats of today – but also trying to fit 7000+ booths worth of data into a flash app that didnt take 20 minutes to load!

Congratulations.

Love the charts. Could waste hours…

I say again, we need a help page where we can find the emoticons easily, as well as tell newbies like me how to do quotes and so on.

AND WE NEED A PREVIEW FUNCTION!

I am amazed, though, that for New England that Education and Training is not even higher than it is – the prevailing mindset here is that the UNE provides heaps of jobs for the town. Maybe they mean the flowthrough to other jobs like catering and so on.

In particular I am really glad to have income distribution and other social factors included. Are those income figures per week or per fortnight?

But a great program is never finished – in version 2.0, could we have a location map on each of the pages with the particular electorate in a different colour for those of us who are electorate maps challenged?

(1) For the NT seats, why is the CLP counted as ‘others’ instead of ‘coalition’?

(2) Is the ALP/Lib margin back to 1996 taken over booths that are currently in the electorate, or just by the name of the electorate? Redistributions would affect the margin sometimes… I’ve got Calare in mind, which got pushed so far over to the Nat side of things Peter Andren had a go at the senate instead (before he died). There’s a large swing to the Nats there, but I’m not sure what that means bearing in mind 1996-2004 the margin was Andren by about 25%.

Finally, have you noticed there’s only three electorates in Victoria with initials N-Z?