IEC Voting Data Analysis

Summary

Analysing the data of the National Elections in South Africa. In line with ci / cd, this project is still in progress and contributers are welcome

The objective this project aims to address:

1. Looking at individual parties and provinces they get majority of their votes

Output (gallery)

Project Status

1. The core functionality is completed and includes:
   • Automated script for cleaning the given spreadsheets
   • Automated script for data analysis
   • On the fly changing party and year of election to analyse
   • Bar graph plotting from data
   • Pie chart plotting from data

Data cleaning

An approach to properly clean and format the data was needed to be able to perform analysis on it.

System Requirements:

• A linux operating system
• Python3
• Pip

Additional requirements:

• Internet access (for dependency installation)

Getting Started

1. Clone the repository
2. Navigate to the project directory

Setup:

1. Install dependencies

    sudo apt-get install python3-tk
    pip install -r dependencies/requirements.txt
   

2. Run the script

    python3 project.py
   

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! If you find any issues or have suggestions for improvements, please open an issue or submit a pull request.

Contributor

Nkosikhona Mlaba