function makeBallots($seats)
{
$outdir = 'sim_ballots_beta' . $seats;
$voters = 40;
$cands = 30;
foreach (range(1, 100000) as $j) {
$name = 'len_' . sprintf("%07d", $j);
$dir = substr($name, -3);
$filename = $seats . 'seat_lengths/' . $dir . '/' . $name;
print "working on {$filename}\n";
$lengths = array();
foreach (file($filename) as $line) {
$lengths[] = trim($line);
}
$ball_set = create_ballot_set($voters, $cands, $seats, $lengths);
$ballot_set_json = json_encode($ball_set);
$ballot_name = 'ballot_' . sprintf("%07d", $j);
if (!file_exists($outdir . '/' . $dir)) {
mkdir($outdir . '/' . $dir);
}
$filename = $outdir . '/' . $dir . '/' . $ballot_name . '.json';
print $filename . "\n";
file_put_contents($filename, $ballot_set_json);
}
}
<?php
$voters = 40;
$cands = 30;
$seats = 12;
function create_ballot_set($voters, $cands, $seats)
{
$cand_array = array();
foreach (range(1, $cands) as $num) {
$cand_array[] = 'cand' . $num;
}
$ballots = array();
foreach (range(1, $voters) as $i) {
shuffle($cand_array);
$ballot_length = mt_rand(1, 30);
$ballots[] = array_slice($cand_array, 0, $ballot_length);
}
return $ballots;
}
foreach (range(0, 100000) as $j) {
$ball_set = create_ballot_set($voters, $cands, $seats);
$ballot_set_json = json_encode($ball_set);
$ballot_name = 'ballot_' . sprintf("%07d", $j);
$dir = substr($ballot_name, -3);
if (!file_exists('sim_ballots_uneven/' . $dir)) {
mkdir('sim_ballots_uneven/' . $dir);
}
$filename = 'sim_ballots_uneven/' . $dir . '/' . $ballot_name . '.json';
print $filename . "\n";
file_put_contents($filename, $ballot_set_json);
}
