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Data Analyst Spoils the World's Biggest Song Vote

Posted by timothy on from the nate-silver-watch-out dept.

littlekorea writes "A data analyst has successfully predicted the top ten songs of the world's biggest song contest — the Triple J Hottest 100 — by extrapolating voting intentions fans had posted on Twitter and Facebook. Nick Drewe's Warmest 100 list closely mimicked the Hottest 100 results, predicting the top three in correct order and predicting 92 of the most popular 100 songs."

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  1. Re:How is this spoiling? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's like saying that Nate Silver or Andrew Tanenbaum spoiled the presidential election... Just because they looked at the signs and figured out how others were going to vote doesn't mean that they spoiled anything.

    Let's talk about this again if statisticians end up actually influencing the vote through their data analysis. Otherwise, let it go.

    Have you considered that maybe Nate Silver made his predictions and then God rearranged the Universe to make it so? Thus, Nate Silver spoiled the election (or is God).

  2. Re:How is this spoiling? by TWX · · Score: 5, Funny

    Have you considered that maybe Nate Silver made his predictions and then God rearranged the Universe to make it so? Thus, Nate Silver spoiled the election (or is God).

    If his prediction was important enough to warrant rearranging the universe, then perhaps the Republican fielded a worse candidate than we could have possibly feared...

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    Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
  3. Re:How is this spoiling? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Godwin-ing this shit now: God didn't rearrange the universe to avoid HITLER's election.

  4. Re:This just in by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sorry Alphatel, but we've never heard of you either. However we do deeply care about your opinion regarding our radio station. Please tell us more.

    Regards,

    Australia.

  5. Re:How is this spoiling? by nabsltd · · Score: 5, Funny

    Have you considered that maybe Nate Silver made his predictions and then God rearranged the Universe to make it so? Thus, Nate Silver spoiled the election (or is God).

    When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.