Modeling Victory — Part 1 Politicology

In this two part series, Øptimus co-founder and Data Science Director for Decision Desk HQ Scott Tranter joins Ron Steslow to talk about data science, polling, and modeling

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(01:00) The role of a data scientist on a campaign 

(04:20) What message testing is and how it’s used

(11:15) Understanding voters you need to persuade and voters you need to turn out

(15:16) Explaining sampling 

(34:36) Polling vs modeling

(37:15) Why pollsters choose the cohorts they do


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