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Modeling Victory — Part 1
Season 2
Episode 130
Published 3 years, 8 months ago
Description
In this two part series, Øptimus co-founder and Data Science Director for Decision Desk HQ Scott Tranter joins Ron Steslow to talk about data science, polling, and modeling
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(01:00) The role of a data scientist on a campaign
(04:20) What message testing is and how it’s used
(11:15) Understanding voters you need to persuade and voters you need to turn out
(15:16) Explaining sampling
(34:36) Polling vs modeling
(37:15) Why pollsters choose the cohorts they do
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