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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: 2, Interesting

    How do you know He didn't? Hitler never won a majority vote until he outlawed the other parties. It was alliances with the other parties that allowed him to become Chancellor. The election prior to passing the Enabling Act his party only won 44% of the vote. The Enabling Act required a 2/3rds vote (it passed with 83%). The cowardice of the other parties to stand up to Hitler is a major reason he was able to get so much absolute power so quickly.

  2. Re:How is this spoiling? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Nietzsche didn't influence national socialism. His works were very selectively edited by his sister who was a Nazi to try to give a philosophical background to and synch with Naziism. Nietzsche was very critical of antisemitism and nationalism in his writings. If Nietzsche would have been alive when the Nazis came to power, he would have been one of the first ones targeted.