ChatGPT and the Blog πŸ€–

You might have picked up on it, but I’ve been integrating ChatGPT into my blogging routine lately. Think of it as having a trusty sidekick helping me with categories, summaries, and even putting together entire blog posts. Now, I’m not short on ideas, but wrangling them into the right words can feel as elusive as catching a firefly on a summer night. And that’s where ChatGPT steps in, like a skilled assistant lending a hand.

Do I give a standing ovation for every result that comes out of ChatGPT? Well, not exactly for every single one. However, it often provides a solid starting point that I can work with. By offering a few cues and prompts, I guide ChatGPT to craft text that sounds smoother than anything I could write. Sometimes it’s a matter of injecting a few concepts, tweaking the language, and presto!β€”out comes a piece of writing that adds an extra layer of depth to the blog, something I might not have conjured all by my lonesome.

Let me be clear, I don’t anticipate being swapped out for a robot, unless the bot start craving sleeping in the back of a pickup truck in the woods. But, hey, if I can enlist a sophisticated language tool to help brainstorm, why not make the most of it? It’s like collaborating with a wordsmith who always knows just the right phrase, albeit in digital form instead of across a table.

Updated Albany County Election Results Crunched

I discovered I accidentally uploaded the wrong file for the Albany County 2022 Election Results Reapportioned to the current EDs but it has been fixed. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1f3p5vNnWtCnkZ38DZwt5GR74-aPauWSaoFSkspPqEiE/edit#gid=1481996295

Also, I added the 2023 Albany County Primary crunched numbers to my 2019-2023 archive, which includes all of those old results in their original version and “adjusted based on block-level Voting Age Population ” to currently in-effect election districts.

https://andyarthur.org/data/albany.county.election.results.2019.2022.zip

I’ve thought about going back to 2018 and before, but I’m not sure how useful those numbers are as demographics shift over the decade, and prior to November 2018 the State Board had enrollments in PDFs which can be tricker to parse then Excel files.