https://github.com/kaijchang/firebrand

🔥 ELO-like Power Ratings for US Politicians
https://github.com/kaijchang/firebrand

election-analysis elo politics trueskill

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🔥 ELO-like Power Ratings for US Politicians

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/kaijchang/firebrand
• Owner: kaijchang
• Created: 2020-05-23T01:08:59.000Z (about 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-08-08T18:50:03.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-12-26T19:18:26.896Z (5 months ago)
• Topics: election-analysis, elo, politics, trueskill
• Language: TypeScript
• Homepage: https://firebrand.kaijchang.com
• Size: 20.1 MB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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README

          
## firebrand - Power Rankings for U.S. Politicians



	



[This website](https://firebrand.kaijchang.com) displays results from the [Trueskill](https://trueskill.org) algorithm on historical American election returns.

### Data Sources

The current version of the site uses data downloaded from [ourcampaigns.com](https://www.ourcampaigns.com/) using [ourcampaigns-api](https://github.com/kajchang/ourcampaigns-api).

Older versions used data compiled from a variety of sources:

- [Ballotpedia](https://ballotpedia.org)

- [Wikipedia](https://www.wikipedia.org)

- [New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/elections/2008/primaries/results/votes/index.html)

- [Dave Leip's Presidential Election Atlas](https://uselectionatlas.org)