Election Data Hackathon
Details
Join us for the 2016 Presidential Election Data Hackathon on Nov 2 at Stitch Fix (https://github.com/WiMLDS/election-data-hackathon) in SF!
MLconf is a co-sponsor for this meetup. Sign up for MLconf SF (Nov 11) (http://mlconf.com/events/san-francisco-ca/) using the discount code WiMLDS18 (http://mlcsf16.eventbrite.com?discount=WiMLDS18) for 18% off registration.
https://github.com/WiMLDS/election-data-hackathon/raw/master/hillary-clinton-and-donald-trump.jpg
We will provide a few options for projects and participants can bring their own ideas. The following tweet-based datasets and starter scripts in R and Python will be provided to get a few projects going:
• Trump's Tweets with phone (source/author) data: Demo of binary classification of tweets as Trump (Android) vs Staff (iPhone) based on David Robinson's popular Trump tweet analysis (http://varianceexplained.org/r/trump-tweets/) and data collected from the Twitter API
• Trump vs Hillary tweets (https://www.kaggle.com/benhamner/clinton-trump-tweets) from Kaggle.com: useful for binary classification based on text and/or metadata
• There are a number of other election related datasets that are publicly available. There is now a GitHub repository that contains all the datasets (https://github.com/WiMLDS/election-data-hackathon) for easy access. Feel free to bring your own and/or submit a PR to the repo with an additional dataset.
We can set up a Slack or Gitter channel for the event so those who can't make it in person can participate remotely. We will also plan to livestream the presentations at the end.
Agenda:
6:00 - 6:45 Food and drinks
6:45 - 7:00 Short presentation about text analysis
7:00 - 8:45 Break into groups and hack election data
8:45 - 9:15 Present some of the results
9:15 - 9:30 Wrap up
🍕 Food and drinks will be provided by our hosts, Stitch Fix.
https://github.com/WiMLDS/election-data-hackathon/raw/master/vote-giant-meteor-2016.png
Public Service Announcement: As a California resident, the last day to register to vote (http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voter-registration/) is October 24th.