Big Data. Episode 10, Political Polls - How Weighted Averaging Wins
(2019, original release: 2014)
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PUBLISHED
The Great Courses, 2014
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2019
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2019
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (streaming video file) (32 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
ISBN/ISSN
6726072
LANGUAGE
English
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Title from title frames
Study the role of big data in predicting election results. Contrast the disastrous 1936 presidential poll by the Literary Digest with today's impressively accurate aggregators of polls, such as statistician Nate Silver. Analyze what makes aggregation more effective than any single poll
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Tim Chartier
Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2014
Mode of access: World Wide Web
In English