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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. Not sure I would want his methods by damn_registrars · · Score: 2, Informative

    Pudge presented at OSCON in July his own approach

    Considering all of the hardcore conservative journal entries that Pudge has made in just the past few weeks, I'm not sure I want to know how he comes up with his conclusions.

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  2. Fivethirtyeight.com by ireallylovelinux · · Score: 3, Informative

    For those people that don't want to install mathematica you could go to fivethirtyeight.com and get updated polls. I got this from the typewriter xkcd.