​​An election twitter bot from BBC News

​​Wesley Stephenson @Wesstephenson

​​Alison Benjamin @Hey_benjamin

​​Link to this dropbox paper: https://tinyurl.com/s3ayd34

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​​Agenda
  • ​​Introduction: today’s workshop
  • ​​Building graphics with R
  • ​​Tweeting graphics with Python
  • ​​Considerations 
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​​Introduction: today’s workshop

​​What did our twitter bot do? 
​​We took the results for each of the 650 seats in the UK and we created 690 of these Twitter results cards:
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​​One for each seat in the UK House of Commons and 40 in Welsh for the Welsh constituencies. 
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​​As the night went on we also created 29 of these UK scorecards:
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​​And scorecards for Scotland, England, Northern Ireland and Wales. 
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​​What we’ll cover in today’s workshop:
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​​Part 1 - Building graphics with R

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​​Line 3 - delete it.
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​​Let’s go

​​Let’s deconstruct this card. How do we get this:
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​​From this result csv:
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​​gssId
​​constituency_shortName
​​newPartyCode
​​partyCodeLast
​​turnout_percentage
​​majorityNow
​​resultBanner
​​fullName
​​party_shortName
​​votesNow
​​candidate_party_code
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​​UC0001
​​Nicarshire
​​MAC
​​MAC
​​87.1
​​6309
​​MAC HOLD
​​Lauren Davies
​​Modern Alliance Coalition
​​21098
​​MAC
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​​UC0001
​​Nicarshire
​​MAC
​​MAC
​​87.1
​​6309
​​MAC HOLD
​​Justin Henderson
​​Social Advancement
​​14789
​​SA
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​​UC0001
​​Nicarshire
​​MAC
​​MAC
​​87.1
​​6309
​​MAC HOLD
​​Habiba Khan
​​Moderate Resistance Party
​​2466
​​MRP
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​​UC0001
​​Nicarshire
​​MAC
​​MAC
​​87.1
​​6309
​​MAC HOLD
​​Jean Cleveland
​​Environmental Climate Alliance
​​1017
​​ECA
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​​UC0001
​​Nicarshire
​​MAC
​​MAC
​​87.1
​​6309
​​MAC HOLD
​​Elise Taylor
​​Traditional Preservation Movement
​​543
​​TPM
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