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Data Mining for Votes

 

There’s an interesting piece by Mike Madden on Salon.com about the Obama team’s sophisticated data mining operation.

In the age of cookies and dashboards, it’s a smart bet that lots of people can recite a lot of data about you. But it’s the smart organizations and savvy strategists who know how to translate the information into useable results. This article offers a case study in progress.

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