Inspired / nicked from this Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/MariosRichards/status/1705906007610655204
Uses the British Election Study panel data - https://www.britishelectionstudy.com/data-objects/panel-study-data/
bes.jl plots voters' perceived distance of political parties from themselves according to their opinions on immigration and redistribution of income.
wrangler.jl injests the raw SPSS/SAV files and spits out a CSV for bes.jl to use and an arrow file. I don't recommend it, your PC will probably run out of RAM.
If you'd like the Arrow file for exploring the raw-ish BES data without a supercomputer, send me an email saying you agree to the BES terms and conditions and I'll work out a way of getting it to you.
I think the most interesting thing to me here is that the Conservatives seem to have convinced a wider range of people that their political positions are close to their own.
BES data: Fieldhouse, E., J. Green, G. Evans, J. Mellon & C. Prosser, J. Bailey (2022) British Election Study Internet Panel Waves 1-23. DOI: 10.5255/UKDA-SN-8810-1