onsdag 23 november 2016

Six Data Science Lessons from the Epic Polling Failure

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From Datanami 
Big data analytics suffered a huge setback on Tuesday when nearly every political poll failed to predict the outcome of the presidential election. The epic failure not only stunned a nation that expected Hillary Clinton to be elected but ended up with Donald Trump. It also left data science experts wondering how so many experienced pollsters could get it so wrong, and what they can do to ensure they don’t repeat the mistakes.