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Malaysian election analysis
Sean Ng
The major issues facing Malaysia’s electoral system remain shockingly numerous: malapportionment, lack of judicial independence, partisanship of the Electoral Commission and other institutions, racialisation of politics and Malay supremacism, restrictions on political speech and civil society, discrepancies in vote tallying, vote buying and clientalisation of key voting blocs, post-election manipulations, capture of institutional media by political parties and mass corruption. We will be looking through election ballot data compiled by Thevesh to explore some of these issues and quantify them.
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linkedin job postings
Sean Ng
Looking at the five largest industries by number of job postings, we can confirm several things that we already likely know from cultural osmosis: IT is a large and well-compensated industry. Healthcare and Manufacturing, whilst having many new jobs, have middling salaries, on average. There are a large number of poorly-compensated retail jobs.
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Google and trip advisor reviews in Kl
Sean Ng
A common refrain for this postmodern age is that online reviews are useless.
Today, we’re looking at two different sets of scraped restaurant reviews to determine to what extent that is true. Restaurant reviews from Google and Trip Advisor in Malaysia were scraped by Ng Choon Khon using the Selenium library.
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Asia-pacific conflict trends
sean ng
Whilst the immensity and diversity of the Asia-Pacific demand exceptions to every rule, we can identify a central tendency (the solid blue line) that most countries in the region seem to sit on. On one end of the line are disproportionately quiet autocracies (or their approximations) and on the other are countries where violence has spun out of state control.
Myanmar and Afghanistan have separated themselves from this central curve as a consequence of open warfare. Philippines, Papua New Guinea and Pakistan are all at risk or were at risk of doing the same in the past 10 years.
