Sentences with phrase «turn voter data»

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In the race to advance data - driven electioneering strategies pioneered by successive Obama campaigns, Cruz has turned to Cambridge Analytica for its unparalleled offering of psychological data based on a treasure trove of Facebook «likes», allowing it to match individuals» traits with existing voter datasets, such as who owned a gun.

In the event, Chmieliauskas» suggestion to clone Kosinski's app led to CA's data licensing relationship with Kogan, whose own personality test app — thisisyourdigitallife — was built bespoke for its project and successfully used to harvest data on 50M + Facebook users so CA could, in turn, build psychological profiles on millions of American voters.

The data was acquired and processed by Cambridge University professor Aleksandr Kogan whose personality quiz app, running on Facebook's platform in 2014, was able to harvest personal data on tens of millions of users (a subset of which Kogan turned into psychological profiles for CA to use for targeting political messaging at US voters).

But creating voter profiles is expensive, so Cambridge turned to Kogan and his Facebook app for data collection.

LONDON — The crisis ravaging Facebook started when a young researcher, regretful over his role in turning data on an estimated tens of millions of U.S. voters into a high - tech political persuasion machine, decided to come forward with his story.

WASHINGTON — Former president Barack Obama's top campaign aide on Tuesday rejected comparisons between Obama's extensive use of Facebook data to turn out voters in the 2012 election and the actions of Cambridge Analytica, a data and political intelligence firm ejected last week by Facebook in a growing controversy over social - media privacy.

That's one reason «addressable» advertising has become popular in the past five years, particularly at the presidential and statewide levels, where campaigns more often have the capacity to build the data models to identify demographic groups and specific voters to persuade or turn out.

This year, Hillary Clinton's team raised hundreds of millions of dollars online, built a massive data and human infrastructure to turn out their voters, invested their money in targeted TV advertising, created opportunities for volunteers to work in their own social circles on behalf of the candidate — all pieces Obama had shown should work.

It's a $ 60 million investment in the idea that good data can produce more efficient politics that, in turn, gets complacent Democrats to the polls and inactive voters engaged.

Some of this data would have been recognizable to party operatives at the turn of the 19th century, such as voter files that contain information about the party registration and issue interests of citizens.

It turns out that Thad Cochran didn't just make good strategic decisions, like courting Democratic voters in a Republican primary; his campaign also made the smart tactical choice to rely on a data - driven field operation to persuade voters and get his supporters to the polls last week:

But while inferences are easier to make based on actual data, what's more difficult to discern is what happened for numerous voters who were turned away or forced to file affidavit ballots because they weren't enrolled in a party or at least weren't enrolled in time for the primary they wanted to vote in.

Trump's election integrity commission will make public records requests to obtain voter data from the states that have refused to turn over that information, the commission's vice chair said.

Kansas Democrats Turn to Data in Governor's Race and DCCC plans big turnout operation aimed at black voters.

In the race to advance data - driven electioneering strategies pioneered by successive Obama campaigns, Cruz has turned to Cambridge Analytica for its unparalleled offering of psychological data based on a treasure trove of Facebook «likes», allowing it to match individuals» traits with existing voter datasets, such as who owned a gun.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's election integrity commission will make public records requests to obtain voter data from the states that have refused to turn over that information, the commission's vice chair said Wednesday.

The state Board of Elections quietly voted this week to turn over some data on New York's voters to a Trump administration panel looking at whether there was mass voter fraud in the 2016 presidential election.

Having access to big data and using it to target specific groups of people allows libraries to build larger audiences of supporters and, in turn, influence voters and local politicians who hold the purse strings to a well - funded library.

The day Cambridge Analytica shut its doors and began liquidation, the UK's privacy watchdog ordered it to turn over all the data it has on a U.S. voter and how it has been used, or the firm could face criminal charges.

Whereas Leave.EU relied on Cambridge to influence voters through its use of data analytics, Vote Leave turned to AIQ, eventually paying the firm roughly 40 percent of its # 7 million campaign budget, according to The Guardian.

In the event, Chmieliauskas» suggestion to clone Kosinski's app led to CA's data licensing relationship with Kogan, whose own personality test app — thisisyourdigitallife — was built bespoke for its project and successfully used to harvest data on 50M + Facebook users so CA could, in turn, build psychological profiles on millions of American voters.

In May, citing the way thousands of people turned out for his rallies, Trump told the Associated Press that he «always felt» that relying on voter data was «overrated.»

In light of revelations that data from 87 million Facebook users was improperly harvested for use in targeting American voters, Facebook could have simply pledged to turn off the spigot to third - party developers.

Political strategists are increasingly using social media as a platform for influencing voters and turning to data scientists to crunch information to find innovative ways to target people.

That report, in turn, came just days after CA was suspended from Facebook over a data incident in which it collected information on around 50 million US voters without their knowledge or consent.

Last week, it turned out that the personal information of about 50 million Facebook users had been obtained without their consent or permission by data mining firm Cambridge Analytica, which allegedly worked for Donald Trump's presidential campaign and the Brexit campaign, with an eye to creating a mechanism that would allow it to predict and influence voters» behavior.

In the wake of revelations that Facebook data was breached and used to manipulate voters in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the market turned against the company, with shareholders dumping stocks.