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How To Import Raw Political Data For Crunching

Posted by timothy on from the loaves-of-bread-to-circus-ratio dept.

Ed Pegg writes "For those that want to get their fingers stained red and blue with actual political data, resources beyond 538 and pollster can be accessed. In a blog item for Wolfram Research, Jeff Hamrick gives step by step details for how to import raw data from Mason-Dixon, Rasmussen, and Quinnipiac. Then he uses Mathematica to analyze the political data." Related: Slashdot developer Pudge presented at OSCON in July his own approach to gathering Washington-state polling data for analysis [PDF].

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  1. Re:Not sure I would want his methods by Nutria · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I'm not sure I want to know how he comes up with his conclusions.

    That's not very intelligent. Knowing how your enemy processes his data, finding flaws in his analysis should be the first thing an anti-conservative does.

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  2. Re:Not sure I would want his methods by Nutria · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Although of course reality does have a known liberal bias.

    This is marked +4 Insightful?

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