Posts Tagged ‘election’

Public v. Private Polling – PredictWise

Sunday, November 27th, 2016

Public v Private Polling
http://PredictWise.com/blog/2016/11/public-v-private-polling Meta-prediction from extrapolating group characteristics limited; need raw individual data

How Hackers Could Send Your Polling Station into Chaos

Wednesday, October 19th, 2016

How Hackers Could Send Your Polling Station into Chaos
https://www.TechnologyReview.com/s/602484/how-hackers-could-send-your-polling-station-into-chaos Corrupting voter registration DBs to affect #election turnout

Inside the Secret World of the Data Crunchers Who Helped Obama Win

Sunday, November 11th, 2012

http://swampland.time.com/2012/11/07/inside-the-secret-world-of-quants-and-data-crunchers-who-helped-obama-win/

512 Paths to the White House – Interactive Feature – NYTimes.com

Saturday, November 3rd, 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/11/02/us/politics/paths-to-the-white-house.html Decision trees in action