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Generates a CSV to represent electoral college
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var increment = 100000; | |
// http://halistechnology.com/2015/05/28/use-javascript-to-export-your-data-as-csv/ | |
function convertArrayOfObjectsToCSV(args) { | |
var result, ctr, keys, columnDelimiter, lineDelimiter, data; | |
data = args.data || null; | |
if (data == null || !data.length) { | |
return null; | |
} | |
columnDelimiter = args.columnDelimiter || ','; | |
lineDelimiter = args.lineDelimiter || '\n'; | |
keys = Object.keys(data[0]); | |
result = ''; | |
result += keys.join(columnDelimiter); | |
result += lineDelimiter; | |
data.forEach(function(item) { | |
ctr = 0; | |
keys.forEach(function(key) { | |
if (ctr > 0) result += columnDelimiter; | |
result += item[key]; | |
ctr++; | |
}); | |
result += lineDelimiter; | |
}); | |
return result; | |
} | |
function getData(state, prefix, totalElectorals, votingAgePop) { | |
var data = []; | |
var pplPerVote = votingAgePop / totalElectorals; | |
var intervals = pplPerVote / increment; | |
for (var es = 0; es < totalElectorals; es++) { | |
for (var i = 0; i < intervals; i++) { | |
data.push({ | |
"State": state, | |
"Electoral Vote": `${prefix} - Electoral Vote ${es}`, | |
"Interval": `100K ${prefix} Voters (${i})` | |
}); | |
} | |
} | |
// console.log(pplPerVote, intervals); | |
return data; | |
} | |
var ny = getData("New York", 'ny', 31, 19594330); | |
var wy = getData("Wyoming", 'wy', 3, 575250); | |
console.log(convertArrayOfObjectsToCSV({ | |
data: ny.concat(wy) | |
})); |
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