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
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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)