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Re:Does my project have any value? by wlievens on Friday April 24, 2009 @05:23AM (#577223)
You're right in that there's a wealth of data I can use. In fact, my game already knows the political affiliation of the player (or rather: the affiliation he's playing, which is often similar).

But how do you go about finding affiliates for advertising? I wouldn't even know where to start. Do I find a publisher of political literature and straight up email them? Or are there proper channels to go about this?

The google ads it shows are terribly irrelevant, so there's indeed a lot of room for optimization here.

Re:Does my project have any value? by mahmud on Friday April 24, 2009 @06:08AM (#577253)
Google is really dumb and we have beat them in the lab so bad, it's not even funny.

If you want to sign up for our ad delivery platform, click on my profile and find my email therein. But here is what you can do to get started: political advertising is typically seasonal, it's not an election season (in the U.S.) so you can weather the storm by signing up for an Amazon affiliate account and selling political books. Your classifier function would be very simple, it's basically a parity predicate; someone is either right wing or left wing. Assign a probability that someone is, say, left wing, to a few conditions and add them up then divide by their count (frequentist statistics, bayesian system is even more powerful.) Once you determine what someone is, display a few amazon book ads in rotation. After a month or so, remove the least performing 1/2 of the books and ad new ones.

This is the dumbest and most straightforward ad delivery platform. Feel free to talk to me in private for more sophisticated stuff :-)

Re:Does my project have any value? by wlievens on Friday April 24, 2009 @11:45AM (#577647)
I'm definitely interested. I've contacted you by mail (let me know if the mail didn't arrive).