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Data Analysis for Politics and Policy Edward R. Tufte
Publisher: Prentice Hall

The site is the brainchild of Chris Cooper, director of WCU's PPI and associate professor of real world of politics and policy in North Carolina. Please read our comment policy before posting. The data were analyzed in the context of a larger project and examined both longitudinally over time, to analyze the processes related to the evolution of the policy issue, and transversely, to analyze the interrelations between each node treated as a variable. The site, “Politics and Policy in the Tar Heel State,” features ongoing analysis and commentary about political issues, including early voting trends, predictions for the outcome of the November elections and the quirks of cell-phone polling. These data are used to test four hypotheses about relationships among the types of political actors involved, their policy preferences, the rhetoric they use and the anticipated policy effects they assert. Edward Tufte has written seven books, including Visual Explanations, Envisioning Information, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, and Data Analysis for Politics and Policy. DataSift, a big data business intelligence and analysis platform for Twitter, is finally opening its doors today to the U.S. As it turns out, a new book by sociologist Neil Gross of the University of British Columbia proves through extensive data analysis on the politics of professors that conservatives are right that academia leans to the left. But according to Gross, conservatives are totally wrong about the cause of this phenomenon—and its to sign in with Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, Disqus, or OpenID to comment. The ever-creeping drive for more pervasive retention and analysis of private data and big brother-style surveillance looks set to continue in the European Union, writes Jan Philipp Albrecht. Many of our posts will include original data analysis.” After the votes cast during the Nov. Edward Tufte: Data Analysis for Politics and Policy: Contents/Preface.