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Show HN: I built a dashboard of official data ahead of French elections

by Frajedo on 4/24/22, 10:44 AM with 24 comments

  • by thenaturalist on 4/24/22, 2:39 PM

    Out of curiosity: What is/was your motivation behind this and how does it correlate to elections?

    My baseline assumption looking at this is that in all of these numbers, there are massive systematic, global - and hence exogenous to France or any single state - forces at play (like globalization, the Financial crisis and the following decade of inflationary money printing) which shape most of these indicators.

    Showing election dates of French presidents looks like a classic and rather obvious case of correlation does not imply causation.

    Might well be that I don't have the full picture though and I was not following French campaigns. Is there a public debate/ general public opinion in France that presidents had significant influence on these indicators shown?

  • by FlyNestor on 4/24/22, 1:45 PM

    A trending subject in France, and worldwide, is the inflation.

    It would be interesting to build an inflation calculator for France.

    Example of a website on inflation: inflationchart. com

  • by altdataseller on 4/24/22, 2:57 PM

    What tools did you use to build these charts?