I open with some caveats.
To estimate the rate at which something occurs in a population, statisticians attempt to take a representative sample from the population. The sampling methodology is one of the most important steps in the process. Representative is the operative word. If a sample is not…
A formerly monolithic political party splitting apart. A highly controversial Presidential candidate at the center. A terrible economy. A country splitting over issues of race. Several overriding political scandals. Voter suppression. Sounds…
I never write about politics. I write about science.
Until the other day, when I wrote about politics and a lot of people read it.
Continuing with my Twitter analysis of the debates, I streamed and analyzed tweets from the last two presidential debates and put together some visualizations comparing the results. I used BigQuery to analyze tweet data from the Cloud…
