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The Data Analytics of Super Tuesday

March 6, 2012 by Brett Stupakevich
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As the Republican primaries barrel ahead towards Super Tuesday, the Republican presidential candidates will be slugging it out as more than 400 delegates are at stake across 10 states. And while each of the states has some bearing on the eventual Republican candidate, many eyes will be squarely focused on Ohio. As the saying goes for... [read more]

The Data Analytics of the 2012 Election . . . So Far

January 12, 2012 by Brett Stupakevich
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To wrap up our data analytics of the 2012 election so far, here’s an interesting data visualization for you. Socialbakers, a social media analytics firm, has an interesting theory that Ron Paul is the most “viral candidate” in the race, at least on Facebook, according to an article from TheNextWeb.com. This analysis was based on how many Facebook users talked about the candidates. Paul had over 59,554 Facebookers talking about him in the week leading up to Iowa. [read more]

2012: The Year of Big Data in American Politics

October 11, 2011 by Brett Stupakevich
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"Guess who has the hottest job in the 2012 presidential campaign … believe it or not, it’s the data mining scientist—or data analyst." [read more]

The Prince of Data Governance

June 14, 2010 by Jim Harris
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The difference between politics and policies was explained in the recent blog post A New Dimension in Data Governance Directives: Politics by Jarrett Goldfedder, who also discussed the need to consider the political influences involved, as they can often have a far greater impact on our data governance policies than many choose to... [read more]

Predictive Analytics and Politics - Part 2

May 6, 2010 by Themos Kalafatis
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In the previous post we have seen an example of analyzing messages sent from citizens regarding a new taxation plan. We identified some correlations between keywords and concepts but there are more ways to gain knowledge from such unstructured information. By using Cluster Analysis we can extract groups of similar concepts among... [read more]

Predictive Analytics and Politics - Part 1

March 17, 2010 by Themos Kalafatis
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One of the most interesting applications of Data/Text Mining and Information Extraction is Politics. I started collecting information from various blogs, websites and forums and applying Information Extraction and Data/Text Mining techniques to extract potentially useful knowledge in this area. By combining different pieces of... [read more]