Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
ConstituencyMap
This project contains code to generate maps of the United Kingdom divided by constituency lines. One can supply constituency-level data, such as number of voters, to see the constituency break down of the data. The maps represent constituencies as equally-sized hexagons. This can be invaluable for visualising maps in a way not biased by landmass.
Static plots are generated using geopandas and matplotlib, and interactive maps are generated with altair.
Maps
The mapper classes are implemented in map/. Currently, only hex maps have been implemented. These maps are created using the fantastic tool by
ODILeeds. There is a script in utils/hex_to_csv
which converts the "hexjson" files created by ODILeeds into csv files.
This repo uses data from the Revoke Article 50 petition in the example files to demonstrate how to create choropleth maps.
How to use
Run the examples/, either by cloning the repo or using binder
in the root directory to see an example hexmap, using data taken from the Revoke Article 50 petition. This example file will show you how to use the HexMap class the create a choropleth map of the United Kingdom.
What are constituencies?
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland operates elections under a first-past-the-post (fptp) system. The nation is split into hundreds of constituencies of roughly the same number of citizens.
In General Elections, the politician with the most votes in each constituency is elected as that constituency's representative to the House of Commons, as one of 650 Members of Parliament (MP).