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[edit] MIT

This is completely off-topic but do you know about MIT OpenCourseWare? Basically, you can take MIT lectures without paying ridiculously high tuition at home. It's very nice. -- Taku 00:02, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Japan election chart

I moved the talks to the talkpage of the article and made a reply. Please pardon me for my late reply. -- Taku 23:31, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] ADSvote

Hi! I have noticed your semi-circular graphs around Wikipedia, and I wondered whether it is possible to get a copy of your ADSvote programme, to cover some regional elections. I would greatly appreciate it. --Earthquakeweather 16:44, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Sure! Just give me a day or two to find it (it's one of my eternal-beta projects) and I'll send it to you right away. If you want the source, it's LGPLed, so you can even use it in your own apps if you want. Habbit 17:05, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
Ok, thank you, that would be fantastic. --Earthquakeweather 18:35, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] European Parliament

Hey there. Love the semicircular graphs, and just wondering if you could find time some time in the next while to knock the European Parliament one up to date. There's been a bit of shuffling of the groups since last autumn. On that note, I'd personally prefer to see the NI group bumped to the far right, considering the general tendency of its membership these days. Anyway, its not biggy, and thanks again for your work thus far. The Tom 04:08, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

I've updated the EP graph, but I'd like you to suggest a complete group distribution scheme Habbit 14:31, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks muchly. The EP itself sits in a L-R order, and while I haven't seen a floorplan in recent years, in one from the last term it was (from L-R) GUE-NGL, PES, Green-EFA, ELDR, EPP-ED, UEN, NI. EDD (todays ID) was in there somewhere, a small block at the outer edge of the centre between ELDR and the Greens is my hunch, but far from a strong one. The smaller groups are at the outer (upper) edges of the arc, so UEN, for instance, might in fact be completely surrounded by EPP-ED--I actually think that's the case at the moment.
I dug through a few academic papers that discussed how citizens placed parties on L-R spectrums when putting together the columns in Table of political parties in Europe by pancontinental organisation, and found that Greens and the EFA regionalists both clock out as further left and much further left, respectively, than mainline social democrats, and the parties that are in the NI pack today are overwhelmingly seen as far-right. Although some Christian Democrats in places like the Netherlands are apparently fond of describing themselves as in the centre between liberals on the right and socialists on the left, liberal=centrist seems to still largely hold up.
So with that in mind, my personal preference would be (L-R) GUE-NGL, PES, Green-EFA, ALDE, ID, EPP-ED, UEN, NI. There's no ironclad empiricism behind it, just a weighing of the placement of each group based on my sense of both of those above measures. The Tom 17:42, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
The European Parliament as of April 8, 2006
The European Parliament as of April 8, 2006
Ok, I've posted the new grouping, but what do you think about this kind of images? I've just written a new graph renderer and I think they can be pretty self-descriptive (maybe more for rectangular parliaments than for the EP, which, as you said, is itself semicircular). Sorry for the legend going out of the image, it's a bug in my app I'll try to fix. Habbit 21:18, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ADSVote (again)

Hi, I'm interested in obtaining a copy of your ADSVote program for some personal projects. Can you send it to me somehow (download link, e-mail, etc...)? Thanks in advance. JJE 19:16, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Um, why haven't you responded? JJE 19:14, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Xtremely sorry, I've been a bit absent from Wikipedia this week... About ADSVote: I can email it or put it into MegaUpload whenever you want, but since I received the first message concerning it, I've been doing quite a few changes in it, especially in areas related to its file format. As the app was only designed for my personal use, its data was saved with the .NET binary serialization formatter, which nearly tied it to a concrete version of the program (in fact, whenever I changed any class related to data, all files saved with prior versions would fail to load). I'm currently implementing an XML file format to work around this and allow users (that plural sounds well :P) to actually work with the program without worrying about what the hell developers do. Habbit 17:28, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Fair enough. Please say when you've done the work on it! I'd be happy to use the old version for now though, if you're willing. JJE 18:40, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Any progress on this? JJE 18:18, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Yep, I'm nearly done with the damn xml format... I hope it'll be on the net in a week ^_^ Habbit 19:29, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

OK, I think I'm done with ADSVote 1.1 beta 1... Just give me an email, or, if you don't want to, I'll upload it somewhere (I'm even considering SourceForge). Please, tell me anything that goes wrong and I'll do my best to fix it. Habbit 14:30, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Well, I'd prefer it if you'd upload it, but if you wish to email me my email is chaosman312@hotmail.com . Thanks! JJE 13:02, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

I have a copy of this now and it is SUPERB. Well done! JJE 19:46, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Well, what can I say... Thank you! ^_^ Habbit 18:54, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

  • Could you possibly send me a copy too? My address is halfthefts@googlemail.com. Thanks --Earthquakeweather 18:41, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Sorry, Gmail keeps returning me the mails to your address. Says "no such recipient". Habbit 10:54, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
Hmm, that is weird, I thought for a minute that there might be a period missing or something, but no, the address is 'halfthefts@googlemail.com'. Could you send it to lunar-rose@hotmail.co.uk instead? Thank you --Earthquakeweather 17:57, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
Sent. Have fun! Habbit 05:33, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] More ADSVotery

IMAO, the graphs are great. I don't know if there are other such applications, but I strongly suggest getting it out there, maybe SF, so it can be used and improved. A standardized legislative block image representation standard would be the greatest thing ever for WpA... 68.39.174.238 12:59, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Oh, dammit... I have sooo many active projects. Ok, I'll post it ASAP, but I don't want ADSVote to suffer the same fate as HashSum, of which I am promising a new version since August 2005. I think I'm starting to look like Cervantes with the second part of La Galatea Habbit 16:28, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
Well, whatever, but it's a cool program. You should hit the State legislatures with it ;). 68.39.174.238 23:23, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
I hate to be the next person to bug you, but if its not much trouble I would love to get a copy of this program as well. Is it uploaded anywhere or would you send it via email? ~Rangeley (talk) 23:17, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
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