Electoral Maps For Statistics Lovers [modified]
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Hey all, Been a while since I posted, but lately I have been doing a series of blog posts on electoral maps of differing kinds and I came across one that I thought was amazing in its scope and breadth. The site fivethirtyeight.com[^] does not just display polling data, but applies statistical analysis and weighs the polling data. I have more depth here[^] if you are interested, as well as other maps that I have posted reviews on in this series. Hope yall enjoy! Aaron And no this is not a plug for my site, yet you may visit if you want, I just thought yall might enjoy this fine piece of statistical work! _____________________________________________________________________ Our developers never release code. Rather, it tends to escape, pillaging the countryside all around. The Enlightenment Project (paraphrased comment) Visit Me at GISDevCafe
modified on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 1:58 PM
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Hey all, Been a while since I posted, but lately I have been doing a series of blog posts on electoral maps of differing kinds and I came across one that I thought was amazing in its scope and breadth. The site fivethirtyeight.com[^] does not just display polling data, but applies statistical analysis and weighs the polling data. I have more depth here[^] if you are interested, as well as other maps that I have posted reviews on in this series. Hope yall enjoy! Aaron And no this is not a plug for my site, yet you may visit if you want, I just thought yall might enjoy this fine piece of statistical work! _____________________________________________________________________ Our developers never release code. Rather, it tends to escape, pillaging the countryside all around. The Enlightenment Project (paraphrased comment) Visit Me at GISDevCafe
modified on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 1:58 PM
Unfortunately it's become quite evident over the past decade or so that increasingly people are lying to pollsters and polling numbers have become increasingly less useful. I'd like to see those margin of error numbers at least doubled for most of them to make any sense.
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