Nice to see that someone is actually applying technology to solve real problems! Great work.
Our startup analyzed the debate last week. What do you think?
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Re: Our startup analyzed the debate last week. What do you think?
#12After last week's debate I looked for an app where I could get objective, near-real time analysis pertaining to the accuracy of a candidate's claim, since Wolf Blitzer obviously wasn't interested in doing his job. To my surprise, I couldn't find an app that did what I wanted. I considered writing one, but it's been almost a week and I haven't done anything yet, so I'll share the idea and maybe someone else will build…
A lot of debate points really aren't "true" or "false" but only "true from a certain point of view". There's exceptions in both directions, certainly, but I don't think this is amenable to real-time analysis by anyone; you're mostly going to get fed the biases of the person on the other end of the wire, not "truth".
Re: Our startup analyzed the debate last week. What do you think?
#13Cool stuff. I can see this being a fun interactive way to participate in tons of reality shows...e.g. Project Runway.
Re: Our startup analyzed the debate last week. What do you think?
#14Minor nit: the distribution of Republican, Democrat, and Independent in the population at large isn't 1/3rd each, so your sample is a bit off from representative.
Re: Our startup analyzed the debate last week. What do you think?
#15Don't use pie charts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_chart#Use.2C_effectiveness_...
Re: Our startup analyzed the debate last week. What do you think?
#16Interesting choice of color on the age graph. It almost looks like it implies those older than 41 are not somehow as important those younger. They almost blend into the background.
Re: Our startup analyzed the debate last week. What do you think?
#17Seems like it has potential, but using an example culled from 30 non-random data points isn't particular interesting.
Re: Our startup analyzed the debate last week. What do you think?
#18Just an FYI, all your results are in percentages, where the total is never given throughout the article. 'about 30' participants is a throwaway gesture - if one wants to actually gauge the quality of the stats, you need an accurate total, and surely 'about 30' could be replaced with the single figure?
Otherwise, looks neat!
Re: Our startup analyzed the debate last week. What do you think?
#19Just curious, but your age ranges are 8 years, 17 years, 14 years, and Unknown. How did you come by those buckets? I can't figure out the intended distinction between each group.