Very long party abbreviation

[drewbo]

@darkobrkan

Looks like the party, HRVATSKA KOALICIJA HDZ 1990 - HSP BIH , is being abbreviated as "HK HDZ 1990 - HSP BIH". Is there any way we can shorten that to save some screen real-estate? Maybe to HDZ 1990?

[darkobrkan]

Well the best you could do to make it still accurate is "HDZ1990-HSP" That
works?

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[informationchef]

There were many party entries that didn't seem especially legibly abbreviate-able, and I believe the default in the processing was to just put the full party name into the abbreviation field.

[drewbo]

Thanks @darkobrkan, that works. The only other one I found that causes issues is "NSRZ, KSPP, E-5 I LDS - ZZUSK" for NS R ZA BOLJITAK, KSPP, E-5 I LDS - ZAJEDNO ZA USK.

Can someone change this in the database as well? Thanks all for the input

[maciej]

Here is a list of longest abbreviations, sorted by string length (it's a quick thing I've done, so it counts the strings by bytes, not actual length in the encoding):

"HSP DRAS – P21S"
"KP GDS BIH I NEP BIH"
"HK HDZ 1990 - HSP BIH"
"NSRZ, KSPP, E-5 I LDS - ZZUSK"
"SDU BIH - LDS BIH - E5 - KZTK"
"ROSO VIKTOR - NEOVISNI KANDIDAT"
"СЛзаСА ПДП-СДС-ДП"
"HERCEG STIPE - NEOVISNI KANDIDAT"
"SOLDO TOMISLAV - NEOVISNI KANDIDAT"
"DRAGOJE SMILJAN - NEOVISNI KANDIDAT"
"HODŽIĆ HAZIM - NEZAVISNI KANDIDAT"
"ĆURKOVIĆ STIPO - RADE - NEOVISNI KANDIDAT"
"ТОМИЋ МИЛОШ - НЕЗАВИСНИ КАНДИДАТ"
"ШАКОТИЋ АНЂЕЛКО - НЕЗАВИСНИ КАНДИДАТ"

I hope it helps.

[mihi-tr]

@informationchef is right - some of them were not abbreviated. Also some are multi-party coalitions. This makes stuff really hard. But it's bosnia right - did you think this was easy?

[kulinba]

Some of them are independent candidates with their full names and names of
a coalition. It makes it hard to abbreviate to something understandable.
This is the reason why I didn't abbreviate that. Maybe we can just use
abbreviation IC and name initials? that would make it 4 letter abbrev. but
no one would know who that person is.

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@informationchef https://github.com/informationchef is right - some of
them were not abbreviated. Also some are multi-party coalitions. This makes
stuff really hard. But it's bosnia right - did you think this was easy?

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[drewbo]

Luckily the other ones mentioned by @maciej don't actually appear as any of the winners (I think).

If we can get 'NS R ZA BOLJITAK, KSPP, E-5 I LDS - ZAJEDNO ZA USK' shortened we should be in business from a display standpoint

[darkobrkan]

We could use probably just "Zajedno za USK" in this case, as far as I am
concerned :) it will not be a mistake

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Drew Bollinger [email protected]
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Luckily the other ones mentioned by @maciej https://github.com/maciej
don't actually appear as any of the winners (I think).

If we can get 'NS R ZA BOLJITAK, KSPP, E-5 I LDS - ZAJEDNO ZA USK'
shortened we should be in business from a display standpoint

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[drewbo]

@maciej or @mihi-tr can you make the two changes to fix the ones that appear in the portal?

• "HDZ1990-HSP"
• "Zajedno za USK"

[maciej]

Party abbreviations are pulled in from the prepared data CSVs.
I think it's best if @mihi-tr changes the source data for the General-Election-Results-2010.csv. Once done, I'll reimport the data to the DB.

[informationchef]

This seems like something we'll want repeatable for the viewability of the upcoming election data. I'm happy to add an "abbreviations" permanent table and a quick script job post-load that applies known additional abbreviations to any loaded data that includes these two party abbreviations to start, and we can add others that impact the visual site as-needed?