Powerful new tools allow political big data community to take advantage of voting information
Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles
The first rule of the “voter score” is…you’re not allowed to know what your voter score is. Even if you aren’t registered to vote or never vote at all, even in presidential elections, your personal and commercial data are being assiduously collected, fed into sophisticated algorithms and analyzed with breathtaking granularity by data engineers who are…
Your Vote Matters (to Data Engineers)
Polls show voter interest in the 2014 midterm elections is significantly lower than interest in the midterms four years ago. Young voters have apparently slumped into apathy, and voters of all stripes simply do not appear to plan to turn out. Yet the Internet tells a different story. Internet activity, measured in news headlines and Google…
Charts: Voters Might Not Care About the Midterm Elections, but the Internet Sure Does
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