I am making these tweets to explain in one place some analysis that was done last night. 1 - I was asked offline about doing Benford's on election data. I explained that this is common and a useful way to detect anomalies in data that are driven by artificial process (e.g. fraud)
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What are the results of the chi-square for both?
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If you mean the test statistic (chival in the code)? They are: Biden 145.75030349836595 Trump 27.964154588747956 If you mean what most people care about (the p-value, i.e. - the "what is the chance of this occurring naturally based on the expected distribution), already posted.
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It would be interesting to see the data for different states
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Yep, they dumped in votes, about 15% of the electorate's worth
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At 80 million for biden that's like 12million votes
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Barplots please
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What site you getting data from, I'll run it too and we can compare
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Made a tweet with the code, the data is coming from the Federal table (second one to expand) on this page: https://county.milwaukee.gov/EN/County-Clerk/Off-Nav/Election-Results/Election-Results-Fall-2020 … You can see the code collecting and parsing it.
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I was able to recreate your assessment after scraping data from https://county.milwaukee.gov/EN/County-Clerk/Off-Nav/Election-Results/Election-Results-Fall-2020 …pic.twitter.com/4xdyHwFeZf
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