'Small Data' Enabled Prediction Of Obama's Win, Say Economists.

The article examines how economists used computer programming to predict the results of the 2012 U.S. presidential election, which was won by U.S. President Barack Obama. Justin Wolfers of the University of Michigan describes several forecasting methods that were used which incorporate data such as...

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Publicado en:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 56; no. 5; pp. 23 - 26
Autor principal:	Hyman, Paul
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Association for Computing Machinery May2013
Materias:	Election forecasting United States presidential election, 2012 Economists Big data Regression analysis Obama, Barack, 1961- Wolfers, Justin United States
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