ENCORE: Modeling Victory — Part 2

About this episode

Scott Tranter discusses data science and polling methodologies in the second part of a two-part series.

In the second episode of 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 To unlock more episodes, visit: https://politicology.com/plus (00:59) The non-response bias and how data scientists must deal with it (02:55) The decrease in response rates over time (10:47) Likely vs eligible voters in polls and how to predict who’s likely to vote (15:55) Finding respondents to fill cohorts (28:05 ) Innovations in data science (31:14) The numbers Scott is watching My conversation with Mike Madrid about Latino Voting Trends: https://link.chtbl.com/CgkltIhG Follow Scott and Ron on Twitter: https://twitter.com/stranter https://twitter.com/RonSteslow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Ron Steslow

Guest: Scott Tranter

Topics covered

• data science
• polling
• modeling
• voter behavior
• non-response bias
• response rates
• Latino voting trends

Keywords

• data science
• polling
• modeling
• voter behavior
• non-response bias
• response rates
• Latino voting trends

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Organizations: Decision Desk HQ, Øptimus

Books & works: Modeling Victory — Part 2

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