Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Political Analysis with Statistics and R Code?



I couldn't believe. Nate Silver's blog is pure awesome when it comes to showing off math. Looks like the image is hosted on www.stat.columbia.edu, also.

From:

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/03/how-went-2008-election-looking-only-at.html

Interesting graphs:



Code and methodology are sourced from here.

Proof that voters in CA and NY have generally lost their minds across all incomes. (I'm making the assumption that limited-government types vote republican, even though the republicans are responsible for this massive big government monstrosity we have today.)

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