Ask HN: Election coming up, any political projects?

8 pointsmattblalock4 comments

I am working on code to do logistic regression and predict voters for a local campaign. Take in the past voting patterns from public records, and tell you who will vote this time so they can get pamphlets and volunteer visits.

Have you checked out Offensive Politics[1][2]? A lot of good tutorials on doing voter modeling with R.

[1] http://offensivepolitics.net/blog/ [2] http://github.com/offensivepolitics

Interesting. Can you explain how one would predict voters based on past voting patterns? Or do you know about similar projects? It seems that Offensive Politics is more into mapping election results. It seems to me politics is not a field where you can easily predict the future by looking at the past :-)

I was thinking of setting up a poll website (for French elections) but all the online polls seem to exhibit major bias, with way more far right-wing votes than in reality, so I haven't done anything at the moment.

https://openpoll.us - It's a platform for voting and discussions on legislation.

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