The Interesting agent tracks election results for every candidate who has at least one interest option flag enabled in Flow. As election results show something interesting happening for one of these tracked candidates, the Interesting agent creates an Interesting Event for that event status. As you review election results, you can instantly identify areas of interest and filter to feature interesting data only. Each candidate in Flow can have a number of candidate interest options flagged, such as Minister, Underdog, Political Veteran, or you can work with Bannister Lake Support to customize the candidate interest options for your needs.
The Interesting agent retrieves updated data every 10 seconds.
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Important: This Interesting agent must be running in order for status to be tracked for flagged candidates. If you are troubleshooting a lack Interesting Events, ensure that the Interesting agent is running and functional using Agent Status. |
Interesting Events
There are a number of interesting events that are automatically generated as results come in (If the Interesting Agent is running)
Tied lead candidates (are looked for regardless of the Required Poll Percent setting)
Results Predication based events (requires predictions to be entered for the ridings)
candidate is behind when they were predicted to be the leader
candidate has a smaller lead than expected
candidate is doing better than expected with a greater percentage of the votes then predicted
Leading party has changed
Leading candidate has changed
Bad elected candidate: a a candidate who was elected but is now trailing.
Incumbent is losing
Interesting candidate is
Elected
Leading/trailing by < 1%
Leading/trailing by < 5%
Leading/trailing by > 5%
Leading/trailing by > 10%
Leading/trailing by > 20%
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The percentage of polls that must be reporting in the riding before any non-prediction events are created. (This excludes Tied lead candidate events)
Default: 5
Interesting Events - Required Poll Count
The number of polls that must be reporting in the riding before any non-prediction events are created.
Default: 3
Prediction: Required Poll Percent
The percentage of polls that must be reporting in the riding before any prediction events are created.
Default: 5
Prediction: Required Poll Count
The count of polls that must be reporting in the riding before any prediction events are created.
Default: 3
Prediction: Electable Lead-Poll Percent Steps
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