Week 9: Back to wrapping up 538 + start writing a user guide

• Meeting: all datasets in 538 recorded, user guide MVP deliverable
• Issues:

Week 6 - 8: MD + chill

• Finished MD (forgot to update this page for 3 weeks, LOL)
• Albert took a vacation, I binge watched Elementary

Week 4 & 5: ModernDive

• Paused 538 with some issues to deal w/ MD

Week 3: datasets & issues & instructions

follow-ups

• wrote issue to inquire the meaning of margin in governor_national_forecast dataset

updates

new datasets

• house_district_forecast.csv & house_national_forecast.csv

• mueller_approval_polls

• ncaa_womens_basketball_tournament_history

start the instructions file here

• update soon!

new issues

• ?dataset does not respond again!
• mueller_approval_polls unclear column: population (2 factors: rv & a) -- wrote issue in 538
• I really don't understand the column means in ncaa_womens_basketball_tournament_history. GOSH. SPORTS. NEED HELP.

current stage

• PR, add my issues in bert's issues

Week 2: 4 more

• august_senate_polls

• endorsements

• forecast_results_2018

• governor_national_forecast & governor_state_forecast

issues & meeting notes

empty columns

• if 2 datasets w/ same column names, make them possible to facet
• add @note on not meaningful & empty columns

vague column meanings

• create an issue in Git, ask author
• if no reply, mark as "unconfirmed" (e.g. "margin" variable)
• • issue @bert's repo

download csv?

• for datasets w/o raw csv file: don't download, read csv from link

test on rachel & elaine

• first version of instruction
• @late july, early august, watch them do it
• RMD - HTML, install packages
• current ver: v.0.4.0

Week 1: getting started - the first dataset

cabinet_turnover