Operations researcher Sheldon H. Jacobson, a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, along with a group of students and collaborators at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, created http://election08.cs.uiuc.edu/, a math model that dynamically forecasts the outcome of the election.
Over 4,000 analysts and experts in analytics are expected to attend next month's meetings. Jacobson's model applies a mathematical model to state polling data, using a dynamic programming algorithm to forecast electoral results.
I took a math modeling class once. Very interesting, but also kinda like sausage being made.
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you want to see the beginning and the end but nothing in between?
That would actually make "election season", this one of which has been going on for nigh 2 years now, almost bearable.
sausage being made?
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