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Hillary Ends Bid for Whitehouse, round 2

Posted in analysis of behavior, economics, media, politics, search, speculation, traffic, tagged , , , , , 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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Hillary Clinton Concedes Nomination

Posted in analysis of behavior, data mining, economics, media, online advertising, politics, social networks, traffic, tagged , , , , , 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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Does Internet Traffic Offer Any Political Guidance?

Posted in business strategy, data mining, economics, politics, tagged , , , , , , 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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