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Analytics Archives


  • Analytics, Data Science, Election 2016

    A World Without Wizards: On Facebook and Cambridge Analytica

    If we want to confront these unreasonable times, we must stay clear-eyed about the state of the world and stop imagining omnicompetent villains behind the scenes.

    By: Dave Karpf Apr 24, 2018
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  • Analytics, New York, Open Data

    How the NYC Commission on Human Rights Uses Open Data Against Discriminatory Landlords

    The New York City Commission on Human Rights has partnered with the city’s data analytics office for help using open data to go after bad landlords. One of the lesser-known protections of the New York City Human Rights Law prohibits housing providers from discriminating against potential tenants based on their...

    By: Jessica McKenzie Jul 13, 2017
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  • Analytics, Election 2016, Elections

    What the Left Can Learn from Trump’s Analytics Team

    Yes, the Clinton campaign struggled with messaging; that doesn’t mean we should throw away everything we’ve learned about how data can make campaigns more effective.

    By: Andy Zack Feb 15, 2017
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  • Analytics, Election 2016

    Will the Real Psychometric Targeters Please Stand Up?

    A skeptic’s take on Trump’s purported big data juggernaut, Cambridge Analytica

    By: Dave Karpf Feb 1, 2017
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  • Analytics, Election 2016, Elections

    An Inclusive Vision for Democratic Technology

    While we try to understand the lessons of 2016, it is time to deal with a key missing element in the conversation on the future of Democratic technology: the voices of people who are not straight, white men.

    By: Jess Morales Rocketto Jan 10, 2017
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  • Analytics, Election 2016

    Retrospective Wishcasting

    Please don’t fool yourselves into believing that the secret to Trump’s success lay in some grand, secret data innovation.

    By: Dave Karpf Nov 10, 2016
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  • Analytics, Election 2016

    Preparing for the Campaign Tech Bullshit Season

    Campaign tech bullshit is found at the intersection of two forces: (1) the incentive to freak your opponents out by sounding more sophisticated than you are, (2) the incentive to build a reputation for the next campaign cycle.

    By: Dave Karpf Oct 31, 2016
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  • Analytics, Elections

    What Civis Media Optimizer Is Not

    Reminder: some of these new products represent a big change. But it often isn’t the change we were expecting or fearing.

    By: Dave Karpf Oct 7, 2015
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  • Analytics, Media

    Parsing Upworthy’s Big Pivot

    Equating Upworthy with clickbait has always obscured the real secret to their success: the company is among the web’s most deft practitioners of sophisticated analytics.

    By: Dave Karpf Jul 9, 2015
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  • #PDF15, Analytics, Election 2016

    Ethan Roeder on the Future of Political Analytics

    "Journalists should be pushing campaigns to answer ethical questions about the work they're doing."

    By: Jessica McKenzie May 19, 2015
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