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Import polling data on presidential elections from the website FiveThirtyEight
ResourceFunction["FiveThirtyEightPresidentialPollingAverages"][yr] imports presidential polling data from fivethirtyeight.com for the for the specified election year yr. | |
ResourceFunction["FiveThirtyEightPresidentialPollingAverages"][{yr1,yr2,…}] combines data from several election years. |
Get polling data for the 1976 US presidential election from fivethirtyeight.com:
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Retrieve polling data for the 2020 election cycle:
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Get all polling data:
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See the included elections dates:
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See the number of statewide averages for each state or region:
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Use a DateObject to specify the date:
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Get data for two elections:
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Get all polling data without the current election cycle using "Historic":
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Select data from just one election:
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See the candidates:
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Get the last result for each state:
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Calculate the estimated difference in support between the two candidates:
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Calculate timeline plots for each state:
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Create a map of the support difference which shows the timelines when hovered:
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Get data for another election:
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Create time series data for each state:
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Get the difference in support between the top two candidates over time for each state with over two hundred estimates:
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Create a list of TimeSeries with samples over the smallest common range:
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Calculate the correlations between states:
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See the results:
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Visualize it:
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The 2020 data includes numbers adjusted for convention bounces:
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The bounce-adjusted numbers differ considerably from the standard average:
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Use only non-bounce-adjusted values instead:
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