Method of Equal Shares: Online Computation Tool

On this page, you can load a participatory budgeting voting file (in the .pb format from pabulib), and compute the outcome using the Method of Equal Shares. The computation happens offline on your device, and no data is being uploaded. The tool supports several variants of the Method of Equal Shares, which you can customize.

Code is available on GitHub . More information about the Method of Equal Shares is available on equalshares.net.

Select data file

or drag and drop it here or load Zielony Milion.

Specify the parameters of the Method of Equal Shares

Tie-breaking: None

Completion method: Repeated increase of voter budgets by 1 currency unit, followed by utilitarian completion

None Utilitarian (select the projects with the highest vote count) Repeated increase of voter budgets by 1 currency unit (Add1) Repeated increase of voter budgets by 1 currency unit, followed by utilitarian completion (Add1u)

Comparison step: None

None Popularity with respect to voter satisfaction Popularity with respect to exclusion ratio

Numerical accuracy: Use floating point numbers

Use floating point numbers (faster to compute, recommended for testing) Use exact fractions (slower to compute, recommended for official results)

Drop a .pb file to import.

Method of Equal Shares: Online Computation Tool

Select data file

Specify the parameters of the Method of Equal Shares

Results