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Quora-stuff

Stuff I've done on Quora other than election forecasts.

Projects in here

• CCES: Things that make use of the Cooperative Congressional Elections Study (CCES).

  • Associated answers/posts: "Whence come the Amash voters?", "Who are America's swing voters, and what makes them swing?"

• COVID-19: Data and analysis on the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Data sources:
    • United States: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • All other countries: Worldometer - Coronavirus
  • Associated answers/posts: "Some researchers are indicating that the epidemiology of COVID-19 is following a graph-theoretic "small world" model rather than a classic exponential model; do you agree, and how does this bode for the disease progression in the U.S.?"

• electoral-deficit: For this, I needed (okay, wanted) to analyze the correlations between presidential election results across states.

  • Associated answers/posts: "Trump lost the popular vote by 2.8 million votes but won the election. What's the maximum popular vote deficient a presidential candidate can have and still win in the electoral college?"

• PARS-PARG: A better version of FiveThirtyEight's Popularity Above Replacement Governor/Senator metric.

  • Associated answers/posts: "A less-lazy approach to a recent FiveThirtyEight piece"

• romney-clinton: Characteristics of counties that flipped from Mitt Romney in 2012 to Hillary Clinton in 2016.

  • Associated answers/posts: "What are the characteristics of the Mitt Romney-Hillary Clinton counties? How will they vote in the future?"

• trifectas: State government trifectas since 2010.

  • Associated answers/posts: "Will re-apportionment based on 2020 census favor Republicans or Democrats? Why?"

• user-bot: Automatically generating new content based on a user's answers. (IN BACKLOG)