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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:This just in by alphatel · · Score: -1, Troll

    Asking people how they're going to vote determined to have predictive value in how they will vote, says latest Slashdot article. Please tag with #obvious and #slownewsday. :/

    Sorry Australia, but I've never heard of Triple J nor do I care what you think the top 100 songs are.

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