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The 2012 Election and the Importance of Effectively Communicating Data-Driven Insights

November 08, 2012 • big data, government, OpenChorus, predictive analytics, upstream, visualization • By Paul M. Davis

How Obama Won Re-election, an animated visualization by The New York Times.

The big winner – or at least the biggest story – of the 2012 Election may be Big Data and the practice of data science. From the Obama campaign’s data-driven electioneering directed by Chief Scientist Rayid Ghani, to the pundit-confounding and uncannily accurate projections of Nate Silver and other statisticians, this may go down as “The Nerdiest Election Ever,” as Wired‘s Spencer Ackerman declared.

Nate Silver on the 2012 Election and the “Prediction Paradox”

September 11, 2012 • data science, government, predictive analytics, upstream • By Paul M. Davis

Following the conclusion of the Republican and Democratic national conventions, we’re mercifully facing down the final days of this election season. With the race heating up, policy wonks and voters are turning their attention to the other breakout star from 2008′s Presidential race: statistician and blogger Nate Silver, whose predictive models during that race proved more accurate than the projections of expert pollsters and the pundits.

Twitter Games the Election Using Social Data

August 02, 2012 • government, predictive analytics, upstream, visualization • By Paul M. Davis

In 2008, statistician Nate Silver upended reporting on elections by calling primary results on his blog FiveThirtyEight with uncanny accuracy. His predictive model considers a wide number of factors outside of polling data, such as economic trends and state-by-state demographic factors.

The Data Science Summit 2012: Staging Ground for the Future

June 02, 2012 • big data, data science, features, reflections • By Paul M. Davis

At the Data Science Summit 2012, practitioners and thought leaders shared broad visions and deep discipline

Big Data may be getting its day in the sun, but data science is the key to unlocking Big Data’s abundance of predictive value and insight.

From Disruption to Insight at the Data Science Summit 2012

May 14, 2012 • big data, data science, features, upstream • By Paul M. Davis

2012 is proving to be the year of Big Data, demanding the attention of executives, thought leaders, academics, and tech journalists alike. From the Obama Administration’s $200 Million Big Data Initiative to the enterprise, retail to academia, businesses, organizations and governments are increasingly realizing the opportunities posed by the inundation of massive data sets.

The 2012 Election and the Importance of Effectively Communicating Data-Driven Insights

Nate Silver on the 2012 Election and the “Prediction Paradox”

Twitter Games the Election Using Social Data

The Data Science Summit 2012: Staging Ground for the Future

From Disruption to Insight at the Data Science Summit 2012

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