Articles in category: rstats

Identifying «communists» at the New York Times, by 1955 US Army criteria

12 August 2014 - A while ago, Open Culture wrote about a 1955 US Army manual entitled How to spot a communist. According to the manual, communists have a preference for long sentences and tend to use expressions like:

High turnout in liberal-voting neighbourhoods, low turnout in left-voting neighbourhoods

14 January 2014 - A ‘prominent civil servant with a social-democrat background’ gets to hand out 400,000 euros in subsidies to turn out ethnic minorities to vote, the Telegraaf newspaper reported last week. «It’s not difficult to guess which parties will benefit the most from a turnout campaign among hard to reach groups of voters.»

Can Twitter predict the new Dutch trade union president

2 May 2013 - ccording to an American study, you can predict the outcome of elections by simply counting how often the names of the candidates are mentioned on Twitter. Would it be possible to predict who will be the new FNV president using Twitter?