Papal Probabilities - Visualized
Fascinated by the papal election? Interested in the minutiae of the curia? Or maybe you're just wondering who gets to ride around next in the popemobile? Never fear, DataParadigms has the Pope Probability Tracker set up for you, all nice and shiny , with code on github and all. As they put it Last week, I set up a scrapper to update the odds hourly from a prominent bookmaker. Given that I had a weeks worth of data, it was time to fire up iPython and see the action . The betting lines seem to have stabilized over the last few days. As we get closer and closer to papal conclave and the members of the remaining Cardinal electors arrive in Rome, the lines should show some movement. . The result is below ( go to the original for the up-to-date info ). And yes, I read " Angelo Scola " as " Anthony Scalia ", and it scared the pants off of me too...