How To Import Raw Political Data For Crunching 34
Ed Pegg writes "For those that want to get their fingers stained red and blue with actual political data, resources beyond 538 and pollster can be accessed. In a blog item for Wolfram Research, Jeff Hamrick gives step by step details for how to import raw data from Mason-Dixon, Rasmussen, and Quinnipiac. Then he uses Mathematica to analyze the political data." Related: Slashdot developer Pudge presented at OSCON in July his own approach to gathering Washington-state polling data for analysis [PDF].
Re:who would want.... (Score:3, Funny)
Even bullshit can be used for fertilizer.
Pudge's pick for November: Red Sox! (Score:1, Funny)
By a suspiciously large margin.