The Pollsters Were Wrong: What Are the Big Data Implications? (Liaison Technologies Inc)
(World News USA)

(Source: Liaison Technologies Inc) The results of the recent presidential election surprised most pollsters. Even though polling data indicated a tight race in the final weeks of the campaign, almost every major pollster predicted a Clinton win. Media outlets like the New York Times and Washington Post published aggregated polls that predicted a Clinton victory. Nate Silver`s FiveThirtyEight site was among the most pessimistic about Clinton when it pegged her odds of winning at north of 70%. Other pollsters were even more bullish: Sam Wang`s Princeton Election Consortium gave Clinton a 99% chance of victory. (And Wang kept his promise to eat a bug on live TV if Trump amassed more than 240...