Political Campaigns Looking to Big Data Again Nick Kolakowski, June 20, 2013 3 min read President Obama’s re-election campaign famously relied on a massive data-analytics effort, spearheaded by a...
The Billion-Dollar Startup: Inside Obama’s Campaign Tech Nick Kolakowski, January 9, 2013 14 min read A presidential campaign is many things to many people: a reason to hope in the future, a wellspring of jokes and debate...
Romney’s Orca Offers Valuable Tips for Data Apps Nick Kolakowski, November 12, 2012 5 min read Fail Whale. In the end, Orca turned out to be a beached whale. This time last week, Mitt Romney’s presidential...
Will Statistical Analytics Change Politics? Nick Kolakowski, November 9, 2012 4 min read Nate Silver used a complex formula and huge datasets to predict the Electoral College. As the 2012 U.S....
Social Networks, Data Took Starring Role in Presidential Campaign Nick Kolakowski, November 7, 2012 2 min read Election Day 2012 was marked by an Obama victory, a set of wins for Democrats in the Senate, a rather gracious...
Twitter Experiment Predicts Obama Election Win Nick Kolakowski, November 6, 2012 3 min read Mark Graham and fellow researchers used 30 million geocoded Tweets to try and predict the Electoral Map. Forget...
Obama, Romney Campaigns Leveraging Data for Money, Votes Nick Kolakowski, October 23, 2012 4 min read The Presidential election has become an increasingly tight race in recent weeks, and both sides plan to pour...
Can Data Mining Win a Presidential Campaign? Nick Kolakowski, August 27, 2012 4 min read The Republicans and Democrats are betting big on data analytics in this current election cycle. According to the...
