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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. 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.