A Complex-Political-Phenomenon

The M.E.R.S. Research Facility uses massive multivariate optimizing algorithmic models (MMOAMs), a.k.a. machine learning algorithms, to predict the winner of the next USA Presidential Election. The model predicts that there is a 77.4% that Democrats will win the Presidential election. Our model predicts with 82.5% recall (i.e. - 17.5% the model inaccurately states Republican favorability is higher) and 100% precision (i.e, - 100%, the model accurately states Democrat favorability). Read more to find out how!

Navigator

Hyperlinks to quickly navigate to other subdirectories:

• Root Folder

  • The highest-level folder / main directory is here.

• data

  • The raw data
  • The cleaned data

• database

  • The SQL database is here.

• results

  • The report and modeling results are here.

• script

  • The scripting files for data wrangling and modeling are here.

• Presentation