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If You Want to Predict the Election, Use FiveThirtyEight.com

• haney 10y ago
  FiveThirtyEight also does a great podcast where they discuss the assumptions built into their model and as polls change over time or events happen in the election they explain the impact on their models. I've found it really educational for both politics and statistics.
• sova 10y ago
  So glad I registered to vote in Colorado. Ohioans please don't let me down! I don't want my grandchildren fighting over water.
  • pbarnes_1 10y ago
    Can't believe Colorado is in play. At least your vote actually matters this year.
• bbctol 10y ago
  This is some strange type of promo piece. What FiveThirtyEight does is definitely not Big Data; they just have a particular method of weighting polls and a couple of assumptions that have turned out well so far. I appreciate the site a lot, but they aren't crunching massive amounts of numbers.
  • pesfandiar 10y ago
    The general public calls any sort of data analysis beyond Excel sheets "big data". A fluff piece about the magic of big data goes well with the company's description: We are a premier consulting company for forward-thinking and innovative projects.