BONSAI voting on nomenclature for "flow object" possible replacement

ontology_voting.py

orig_data = """BDACFE
DCAFBE
AFDCEB
ADCFBE
CAEBDF
DCABFGHE
AFCED
DCAFBEGH
BGEACDH""".split("\n")

LETTERS = "ABCDEFGH"

def _(x, s, default):
    try:
        return s.index(x) + 1
    except ValueError:
        return default + 1


mapping = {x: i + 1 for i, x in enumerate(LETTERS)}

data = [[_(letter, line, len(LETTERS)) for letter in LETTERS] for line in orig_data]

for line in data:
    print(str(line)[1:-1])

import numpy as np

for letter in LETTERS:
    print(letter, np.average([_(letter, line, len(LETTERS)) for line in orig_data]))

To do instant runoff voting, use https://petertheone.github.io/IRV/

Use this list of candidates:
A
B
C
D
E
F

And these responses printed out by this gist.