You know what they say about polls…well I don’t believe they are all lies and statistics about Canadian opinions can be very useful, when considered in a balanced way. Apparently if you are the head of a polling firm, such as Nik Nanos, however, you are able to infer trends from a very short sequence of data. Just taking a look at the chart in this article with a short, narrow peak in the past two weeks being called a new normal is a bit of a laugh. How can a few points define a new normal? (more…)
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Reckless Talk by Polling ’Experts’
Posted by Mark Crowley on October 22, 2009
http://computationallythinking.com/2009/10/22/reckless-talk-by-polling-experts/
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About Me
Mark Crowley
Researcher. Educator. Blogger. Optimist.
The best way to summarize me is to link to the places where you can read my writing.
I am a currently a postdoctoral scholar at Oregon State University on the search for a great faculty job in Computer Science. My research is generally in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Specifically, I look at the computational challenges to making good decisions about how to act in the face of uncertainty when actions need to be taken at many locations in space at each moment in time.
Currently, I am very excited and involved in a new field of research called Computational Sustainability which attempts to combine advances in AI, Machine Learning and Operations Research and other fields with the ridiculously challenging problems that exist in Ecology, Sustainable Resource Management, Forest and Wildlife Management and Climate Change.
If you want me to talk your ear off bring up politics or voting systems and democratic reform in general.
Everything else I have to say tends to show up on Google+, so feel free to look me up there and say hi.
