<p><a href="http://research.pomona.edu/johardin/">Jo Hardin</a> joins us this week to discuss the <a href= "http://www.amstat.org/">ASA</a>'s Election Prediction Contest. This is a competition aimed at forecasting the results of the upcoming US presidential election competition. More details are available in Jo's blog post found <a href= "https://www.r-bloggers.com/presidential-election-predictions-2016-an-asa-competition/"> here</a>.</p> <p>You can find some useful R code for getting started automatically gathering data from 538 via <a href= "https://github.com/hardin47/prediction2016/blob/master/predblog.Rmd"> Jo's github</a> and official contest details are available <a href= "http://thisisstatistics.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/2016_ElectionPredictionContest_DetailedRules_2016-0718.pdf"> here</a>. During the interview we also mention <a href= "http://www.dailykos.com/">Daily Kos</a> and <a href= "http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/">538</a>.</p>

[MINI] Random Forest

The Data Skeptic Podcast features interviews and discussion of topics related to data science, statistics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and the like, all from the perspective of applying critical thinking and the scientific method to evaluate the veracity of claims and efficacy of approaches.