SAVE Change log

Aggregation explorable:

Changed the title to "Aggregation of Voter Ideals (in 2D)

Extended the simulation controls reference to include all the controls.

Added text sections on:

• Details on electorate creation
• Details on the various display options
• Things to look for in this simulation

Added distance descent line and path options, similar to the gradient descent line and path options, but using a different method to find the best result.

Fixed bug in gradient definition. The broken version normalized gradients to 1 unit in the desired direction instead of recognizing the variability in the strength of the pull (the length of the vectors).

Fixed bug in the initial caption. The problem was the initial caption originated from a different explorable. The new initial caption is more appropriate to the aggregation.

Redo navigation to focus on SAVE.

Added an about page.

Added an all-models page as a short-cut to all the models.

Updated home/landing page to focus on SAVE.

Updated pages and code to use proper Minkowski symbols. (The power is a superscript, and when weights are used, there is a subscript of w.

Major updates to text of SAVE basics,

Major updates to text of Voter metrics,

Renamed SAVE-01 to SAVE-basics and SAVE-02 to SAVE-voters, to better accommodate the new SAVE-focus.

Added new Explore SAVE Focus page. Currently only text describing the rules. Plan is to add a simulation to allow folks to play with the rules and see how things work and why they are as they are now.

Added body tags to any pages that were missing them. This allows better CSS compartmentalization.

Updated the initial caption in the Spatial Models explorable to more clearly explain why I chose a cycle to be the first spatial depiction of an electorate.

Fixed, or at least improved, indentation on description list items.

Updated text for most of the earlier pages, switching from "alternatives" to "motions" mostly, but other changes as well, trying to be more consistent and accurate.

Further propagation of that last flag. which had caused some explorables to fail in odd ways.

Added an average voter-motion distance metric to the Mandate table in SAVE reports.

I forgot a new flag that needed to be in all my more recent explorables, but I didn't back-port far enough, so my spatial model explorable was quite happily updating its model, but it just wasn't displaying the new positions of the motions and voters. Fixed now. sigh… (But at least I'm getting practice with updating the site. :-)

Added the SAVE Voters explorable.

This early version of the site is aimed at voting theorists: People who have taken close looks at exactly how we vote, and how the exact systems we use to vote can help or hinder our democracies. The initial eight simulations (explorables) are: tournaments, preference profiles, spatial models, IRV using Voronoi diagrams, SAVE basics, Voter metrics, and aggregation.