What’s the Science Behind Political Data? [Infographic]
Storage vendor NetApp is offering voters a fresh perspective on the election with a new infographic that lets us glimpse into the data science that goes on behind the scenes.
The Democratic and Republican conventions each generated one terabyte worth of e-mails, tweets, video streams and mobile data. The infrastructure for these conventions consisted of 70 miles of copper wiring and another 50 miles in fiber, a setup designed to accommodate 20,000 participants.
Twitter in turn seems to be playing a significant role in this election. The presidential debates generated more than 10 million tweets, and prominent accounts associated with the Save Big Bird campaign gained tens of thousands of followers in very short periods of time.
NetApp also looked at several data streams that have been used to try and predict the winner. Sales of Obama coffee cups and Halloween masks exceeded that of corresponding Romney merchandise, which may suggest that the Democratic party is set to snag this presidency. But a study from the University of Colorado study expects Romney to come out on top based unemployment and capita income statistics.
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