Posted in analysis of behavior, economics, media, politics, search, speculation, traffic, tagged barack wins, clinton bows out, clinton concedes, clinton loses, clinton primary, hillary clinton on June 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It seems as if my experiment was simply ill timed, not completely wacko.
CNN has already started posting speculation news about the end of Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
A month ago I posted this blog headline to gauge how early you could post a “potential” news story and pick up traffic. A month later, that post is number 2 [...]
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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 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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