Show HN: Tracking voter discussion of the Presidential debates

Re:Show HN: Tracking voter discussion of the Presidential de... by jdunck on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @08:42PM (#4610377)

We have voter rolls (preprocessed) into elastic search. We do search using data available from twitter (name & location, mostly). We can't match all twitter users who are voters, but we have a very low false-positive rate.

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Re:Show HN: Tracking voter discussion of the Presidential de... by erikrose on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @09:08PM (#4610456)

And getting lower tomorrow. And then going up in efficacy, while maintaining confidence. There's a ton more we can do with this. :-)

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