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Showing posts with label data. Show all posts
Showing posts with label data. Show all posts
Sunday, November 17, 2024

Dear ChatGPT: How do we measure the state of the American economy?

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Measuring the state of the American economy involves tracking a range of indicators that reflect various aspects of economic performance, su...
Thursday, October 6, 2016

From 538: How I Acted Like A Pundit And Screwed Up On Donald Trump - Trump’s nomination shows the need for a more rigorous approach.

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In 2305 today we looked at Nate Silver's bad call during the primary. Along with most other political observers, he discounted Trump...
Wednesday, April 13, 2016

From Campaigns and Elections: Organization and Analytics Help Take Down Trump in Iowa.

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A nice inside look at how data driven campaigns are run. Obama started it all - at least in the digital age - but here is how things have p...
Tuesday, March 8, 2016

It's not magic. It's data science.

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Thst's what Civis Analytics claims anyway. I'd say this is the future - but it's really the present. And its a reason you might ...
Friday, December 18, 2015

From the Hill: Sanders sues Democratic Party

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A Sanders staffer was found sneaking around in a data base the Democratic National Committee makes available to candidates- but which can b...
Saturday, July 13, 2013

Life expectancy in the US slips - comparatively

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From the National Journal , which reports on a study released by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation . In absolute terms, life e...
Thursday, July 11, 2013

From the Brookings Institute: Vital Statistics on Congress

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The latest edition of an ongoing projec t. I'm tempted to create a separate section in class just on this material.
Wednesday, June 12, 2013

From Wired: Big Data and Analytics

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There was talk in class today - in relation to the assigned book on the 2012 election - about whether data and analytics were good for campa...
Wednesday, May 22, 2013

New data source: Measuring American Legislatures

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Measuring American Legislatures  is a new website that offers data on all state legislators servinf from 1993-2011.
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Texas on the Brink points out where Texas lags behind other states in education and health care.

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This is the sixth edition of the document , produced by the Legislative Study Group . The Texas Tribune comments here .
Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Is hate speech related to ethnic violence?

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A group called Hatebase think that it is and monitors social media to determine whether ethnic conflict is about to flare up: From Foreign ...
Saturday, January 5, 2013

Is the level of violent crime related to the level of lead in the environment?

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There's evidence that  a relationship exists between exposure to high levels of lead - it used to commonly be in paint and gas - and pro...
Thursday, May 24, 2012

From Slate: The Death of the Hunch

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Here's a look into the current state of campaigning , at least on Obama's side. It involves randomized tests, data, and empirical an...