{"id":1879,"date":"2013-07-01T12:52:52","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T12:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=1879"},"modified":"2013-07-01T12:52:52","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T12:52:52","slug":"numbers-game-will-predictive-analytics-decide-septembers-federal-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/numbers-game-will-predictive-analytics-decide-septembers-federal-election\/1879\/","title":{"rendered":"Numbers Game: Will Predictive Analytics Decide September\u2019s Federal Election?"},"content":{"rendered":"A week after November\u2019s United States presidential election and Nate Silver was everywhere. Already an established member of the American political commentariat via his blog FiveThirtyEight.com, Silver\u2019s name went into the stratosphere after he correctly predicted the winner of all 50 US States and the District of Colombia in the 2012 race for the White House. Silver went from being a political analyst on news television to a regular guest on mainstream talk shows across the United States. How had his predictions been so accurate? And what did it mean for future elections in the US? Silver had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/numbers-game-will-predictive-analytics-decide-septembers-federal-election\/1879\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week after November\u2019s United States presidential election and Nate Silver was everywhere. Already an established member of the American political commentariat via his blog FiveThirtyEight.com, Silver\u2019s name went into the stratosphere after he correctly predicted the winner of all 50 US States and the District of Colombia in the 2012 race for the White [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,48],"tags":[67,6,68,69,8,70,71],"class_list":["post-1879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-left-hand","tag-election","tag-eric-siegel","tag-nate-silver","tag-persuasion-modelling","tag-predictive-analytics","tag-project-orca","tag-rayid-ghani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1879"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1883,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions\/1883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}