There I was, looking for a small prediction project. How about dabbling with Scottish referendum polls?

My enthusiasm was quickly reduced when I noticed a few days ago that #ScotCen's data were less than optimally curated (dates & pollsters in the same cell? 🤷 👇 ).
https://whatscotlandthinks.org/questions/how-would-you-vote-in-the-in-a-scottish-independence-referendum-if-held-now-ask/

But I now found that they also don't provide sample sizes for the polls either.

(Nor any of the results presented by commercial platforms. But that's their prerogative, I guess.)

#OpenData #NatCen

The "What Scotland Thinks" page provides a useful collection of #OpinionPoll results.
https://whatscotlandthinks.org/opinion-polls/scotland-poll-results/

But who thought it was a good idea to enter the date of the poll and the pollster in the same data field?
👇

This is also the case for downloaded data. At least they are separated by a consistent character.

#StringProcessing #Survey
Edited to add:
#NatCen #ScotCen #Scotland #OpenData

Highly recommend this recording of today’s #NatCen & #KingsCollegeLondon seminar on making #deliberative #democracy part of everyone’s lives. To paraphrase @OliverEscobar

#Deliberation is a way of communicating as old as humanity, it’s not a #Eurocentric story

And Claudia Chwalisz from #DemocracyNext

Taking part in deliberative processes can have a transformative effect on people, it can ignite their sense of #agency

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBxpVgVe6kc

#Inclusion #Involvement #Participation

Tune in tomorrow lunchtime for the latest in this excellent seminar series on #DeliberativeResearch hosted by #NatCen and #KingsCollegeLondon

Guest speakers @OliverEscobar (University of Edinburgh) and Claudia Chwalisz from #DemocracyNext will be discussing

#Deliberation for all! The opportunities and risks of building #deliberative systems

See you there

#DemocraticInnovation #Democracy #CitizensAssemblies

https://natcen.ac.uk/events/past-events/2022/november/deliberation-for-all!-the-opportunities-and-risks-of-building-deliberative-systems/