The Year in News 2016

For the third year running, we’re visualizing The Year in News through data collected from 2 billion tweets throughout the course of 2016. That number alone is a big deal: it’s up 337% from the 459.9 million U.S. tweets we estimated were about major news stories in 2015.

Trumped Up Polls

Or, why the media needs to learn to stop worrying and love analytics.

America is Headed for Record Turnout. Here’s What That Looks Like.

#TheYearInNews 2015

Social media conversation is an amazing window into the world of news. Not only are we able to use it to quantify the level of conversation around any story or topic — and thus get a directional sense of broader public interest— but we’re able to understand how stories move amongst certain…

Who Do Polls Say Will Win the GOP Nomination? Check Back in November.

Most of the commentary around public polling right now centers around the fact that August and other early polls aren’t awfully predictive of who will win the nomination, especially in the Republican field…

Polling the Republican Primary Electorate on the Eve of the First Debate

Heading into the first debate of the 2016 campaign season, there are many unanswered questions. Donald Trump has rocketed to the top of the Republican primary field in most surveys, but many pundits are at…

Mapping the Demography of the 2016 Election

If the polls are right, we could see a dramatic and historic shift in the allegiances of white voters on different sides of the educational divide in Tuesday’s election. The rise of Latino voters has also been one of the stories of this election…

How Social Sharing is Reshaping the 2016 Race: Key Takeaways from Our Research for BuzzFeed

The majority of voters in the last election were under the age of fifty, and reaching them is becoming both more important and more difficult than ever. As increasing numbers…