[Clinton vs Trump – Big Data] And the winner is… Donald Trump
Donald Trump has been elected president of the United States.
In an extremely narrow sense, I’m not that surprised by the outcome, since polling — to a greater extent than the conventional wisdom acknowledged — had shown a fairly competitive race with critical weaknesses for Clinton in the Electoral College. It’s possible, perhaps even likely, that Clinton will eventually win the popular vote as more votes come in from California.
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By Nate Silver
[Fivethirtyeight] Who will win the presidency?
Election Update: Clinton Gains, And The Polls Magically Converge
[…] First things first: Hillary Clinton has a 70 percent chance of winning the election, according to both the FiveThirtyEight polls-only and polls-plus models. That’s up from a 65 percent chance on Sunday night, so Clinton has had a good run in the polls in the final days of the campaign. Clinton’s projected margin of victory in the popular vote has increased to 3.5 percent from 2.9 percent. […]
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By Nate Silver
Source: fivethirtyeight.com
[Fortune] What the Latest Nate Silver Controversy Teaches Us About Big Data
[…] Early on Saturday, Nate Silver, renowned poll analyst and editor of FiveThirtyEight.com, unleashed a Twitter tirade directed at the Huffington Post. His target was an article that criticized Silver’s use of a modeling technique known as trend line adjustment to adjust poll results in light of each poll’s changes over time. […]
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By David Z. Morris
Source: fortune.com
[CBRonline] Will a British big data company win Trump the U.S. election?
[…] Donald Trump and his campaign for the Presidency of the United States has turned to a UK based big data analytics firm to try and win over voters.
Cambridge Analytica has been paid large sums of money, $5m in September alone, to try and help influence voters and how they will vote. […]
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By James Nunns
Source: cbronline.com
[Livemint] Big Data and the US election
[…] By The US election is upon us. We watch the see-sawing in the polls with bated breath—last Wednesday’s Mint carried a blurb that Donald Trump now has a slender lead over Hillary Clinton. The truth is we will not know the result until all is said and done on 8 November.
While I am apolitical, at least in public, I can’t help but observe with interest the political process itself, and to note how this process has been affected in so many ways by the use, misuse and timing of data. […]
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By Siddharth Pai
Source: livemint.com
[Le Figaro] Quiz : testez vos connaissances sur la présidentielle américaine
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Par Yohan Blavignat, Etienne Jacob
Source : lefigaro.fr