Though we're a bunch of data nerds here at Swivel, we still talk about the same things as everybody else. Recently, the elections have captured our interest.
Perhaps unlike most people, we at Swivel like to watch the drama unfold in the data.
We monitor news and media attention with Google Trends and Nielsen's BlogPulse.
And we track the results of the changes in media attention with Gallup polls and Intrade elections futures.
Hat tip to Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media for the inspiration for this post.
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I've been looking at Google Trends to see if it could successfully predict the vice presidential running mates. It did correctly predict Joe Biden, but not Sarah Palin. The ultimate test will be the presidential election.
Posted by: Christopher Monnier | September 03, 2008 at 07:23 AM
That's really interesting. You'll have to let me know how that works out with the election results. :)
Posted by: Natalie Glatzel | September 23, 2008 at 03:49 PM