Lesson 12: Forecasting the 2024 US Presidential Election, part 2
March 15, 2024
Review:
- Sourcing and pre-processing data
- Census.gov
- Secretary of State offices
- Wikipedia
- Exam 2
- Review and Exam next week
- Election model will be part of Exam 2
Presentation:
- Assemble demographic and election data for your assigned State
- Run correlation analyses and initial regression models
- Narrow your model to significant variables
- Generate residuals
- Compare “actual” versus “predicted” using 2020 election results
- Make adjustments
Activity:
- Work on assembling your data and building your model
Assignment:
- Complete assembly of your data set and prepare a “candidate” model for Tue