It’s Election Time Again—Do We Predict Better This Time?

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From Polling to Prediction Markets: How Reliable Can We Predict Elections?

This latest episode of the Harvard Data Science Review Podcast takes a closer look at election polling: how polls are conducted, what they can tell us about voters, and why measuring public opinion has become increasingly challenging. In advance of the Harvard Political Analytics ...  Show more

The Impact of AI on Podcasts: From Linear Digression to SuperDataScience

This month’s episode of the Harvard Data Science Review Podcast turns the microphone on two people who regularly bring data science, machine learning, and AI to podcast audiences: Katie Malone, host of Linear Digressions, and Jon Krohn, host of SuperDataScience and co-founder and ...  Show more

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