What percentage of seats does the #Singapore People’s Action Party win?
Normally, this is a 2-hour programmatic data-scraping + data visualization exercise, ideal for a data journalism class.
Now, it’s a 2-minute question to O3-Mini-High.
Search online for the historical results of all the Singapore elections and show me a table and chart of the number and percentage of the seats won by People’s Action Party.
Chat link: https://chatgpt.com/share/6808314c-542c-800c-843e-4d53ff57768d
It “manually” read the Wikipedia page for each election, then wrote a Python script to draw the chart.
Now, a non-psephologist like me can explore implications rather than process. Like:
- Why a 1963 slump then instant sweep?
- Four consecutive 100 % victories (1965 - 1980!)
- Seat count growth masks percentage dips?
- 2020 is PAP’s lowest seat share in six decades – which is still 89%!
A big win for #datajournalism
“PS: My stream is filled with posts like these. “Earlier, this would have cost $1000X or taken 100X more time.” The subtler point is, “Earlier, it wasn’t practical.” This isn’t efficiency. It’s alchemy.
