Adjusted with the 2022 voter turnout at 82.98%, that would be 15,725,734, around 15.75 million.

If someone gets 20 million votes, it seems they are assured a seat for the senate. 16 million may still be too low for tight races.

HOPING FOR THE BEST FOR OUR COUNTRY.

With respect to the reported number of registered voters for 2025 at 69,673,655 from Comelec and the 2022 12th placer percentage, the estimated threshold to get into the magic 12 would be 18,951,234, so around 19 million.

Official statistics and the image source, go to:

psa.gov.ph/content/gdp-...

However, the looming global trade war, American idiocracy, and the recurring stunting of policymaking from Philippine politics are not good starters.

There is low unemployment, but wage quality is poor.

2024 was a year of bad conditions.

Hoping 2025 fares better with the upcoming election spending, whatever good or bad it is in other respects.

My presentation is titled "Open and Collaborative Data Science: Aiding Public Engagement and Policymaking", which discusses open data principles and analytics workflows with multiple case studies during the COVID-19 pandemic and future work in GRIT Labs.

Super busy but excited for the work we do!

It is organized by the Governance Reform, Innovation, and Transformation (GRIT) Research Laboratories, which led by Dr Kristoffer Berse, Dean of UP NCPAG. I am a GRIT Labs fellow under the Resilient Communities Group and Creative Cities Group.

The panel session is titled “From Big to BOLD: Big, Open and Linked Data for Better Governance and Decision-making”.