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Interesting post, but what I don't understand is what data is being used here? You vaguely mention foreign relations and song quality somewhere in the middle,
by binarymax 13y ago
Interesting post, but what I don't understand is what data is being used here? You vaguely mention foreign relations and
song quality somewhere in the middle, but you don't elaborate on any metrics or data source?
- arethuza 13y agoYou are trying to apply logic to an article about Eurovision? The whole thing is, intentionally, a logic free zone.
- untog 13y agoIt actually fits it's own internal logic quite closely. Countries vote overwhelmingly on political grounds, with actual song quality coming in a distance second.
- mewo2 13y agoThe data source is the voting records since 1998. It's run through a parametric Bayesian MCMC model. The input data and the code for last year's model, which is pretty similar, are on GitHub: https://github.com/mewo2/eurovision https://github.com/mewo2/eurovision
- rmc 13y agoEurovision is a summary of european geopolitics told through a limited form of communication called "voting". There's a bit of singing at the start, but that only slightly affects the voting bit.