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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:who would want.... by WTF+Chuck · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The people who would want to import this kind of data are the same people that would prefer to analyze things for themselves, rather than rely on someone else's biased interpretation.

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  2. Mathematica Advertisment by Myrddin+Wyllt · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This doesn't seem like a serious forecasting project, just a bit of topical advertising fluff thrown together by a couple of Wolfram staffers. It might be fun to download and play with if you have Mathematica already, but it doesn't make me want to rush out and blow two and a half grand on propriety software.

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