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Modeling Victory — Part 1
Season 2 · Episode 130

Modeling Victory — Part 1

Scott Tranter on data science, polling, and modeling

Politicology

May 4, 202252m 40s

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Show Notes

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



Follow Scott and Ron on Twitter:


https://twitter.com/stranter


https://twitter.com/RonSteslow

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