Political Pundits
Fair warning: talking politics is like pulling teeth for me so please excuse any sports or pop culture references that I am sure to make. Predictive journalism has been a around essentially as long as modern journalism itself. People take it upon themselves to create predictions about numerous things from technology, to sports, to the economy. There seems to be one that comes into full swing during certain times every four years. Yes, I'm referring to the political side of predictive journalism. Honestly I would rather pull my own teeth than try to make election predications especially for the current situation or even last election. I would have been able to predict the Miami Heat potentially going to the finals this year before I'd have guessed we'd be stuck with such inept candidates. Never the less some people get their kicks out of making either wild claims or running algorithms on computers to try to tell the future. Let's take a look at implications of t...