Posted in analysis of behavior, data mining, economics, media, online advertising, politics, social networks, traffic, tagged barack obama, democratic nomination, future, hillary clinton, news, social experiment on May 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Is this the headline you’ve been waiting for?
Can I predict bloggers/blog readers voting preferences based on which headline they respond to?
NOTE: This headline and series of upcoming posts is a SOCIAL EXPERIMENT. I am attempting to do an informal poll on key future headlines. I will be testing a series of headlines of the coming [...]
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Posted in analysis of behavior, economics, politics, religion, speculation, tagged barack obama, editorial bias, media, news headlines, obama 2008, obama speech, pew study, race, religion, shift on March 19, 2008 | No Comments »
John H. Bryant writes:
Behaviorally speaking, what happened when Barack Obama spoke on religion yesterday?For some, like the way I approached the speech and later his presentation, Obama’s speech might have seemed to be about religion… or perhaps the American Black experience… or perhaps the generational tug of our past with what is important to [...]
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Posted in analysis of behavior, media, politics, religion, tagged barack obama, editorial bias, media, news headlines, obama 2008, obama speech, pew study, race, religion, shift on March 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Barack Obama’s speech was so full of interesting threads. The issue of religion and our ever more confusing association with a particular religion, its leaders and its every rule is central to Obama’s speech - and likely some of his more robust and potentially inflamatory arguments.
I’m posting this article recently published by my friend [...]
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Posted in analysis of behavior, media, online advertising, politics, social networks, tagged barack obama, editorial bias, media, news headlines, obama 2008, obama speech, race, religion on March 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Check out these headlines pulled from Google News regarding the recent Obama speech (full text). The context and content of the speech make this an excellent media event to analyze. It’s full of taboo issues and the stakes are sky high. Doesn’t hurt that this is an incredibly active political season.
What can we gather about [...]
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Posted in business strategy, data mining, economics, politics, tagged politics, internet traffic, policymap, quantcast, alexa, barack obama, hillary clinton on February 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Consider the Democratic Primaries. Do we see any predictive power in internet traffic?
Quantcast Demographic Info:
Hillary
Barack
Compete.com: Hillary vs. Barack
Alexa:
Check here.
Quantcast:
Conclusion:
It’s tricky! however, I think we need to normalize the traffic by demographic as raw volume is not a good predictor at all (very low correlation between results+exit polls and internet traffic). See [...]
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