Ballotmaps: Detecting name bias in alphabetically ordered ballot papers

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2384-2391

  Wood, Jo ^a   Badawood, Donia ^a   Dykes, Jason ^a   Slingsby, Aidan ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bias; democracy; election; geovisualization; governance; hierarchy; treemaps; Voting

Indexed keywords

BIAS; DEMOCRACY; ELECTION; GEOVISUALIZATION; GOVERNANCE; HIERARCHY; TREE-MAPS; VOTING;

PAPER;

EID: 80955125623     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2011.174     Document Type: Article

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