Sentences with phrase «voter data gathered»

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Masses of data about each voter's political tendencies - gathered through public sources and through campaign contact - allowed Obama for America (OFA) to target voters more precisely than ever before.

Sandberg's post came less than a week after The New York Times and The Observer of London reported that Cambridge Analytica, a political data company created by Stephen Bannon and Robert Mercer, gathered users» Facebook data and claimed it could influence the behavior of American voters.

The Cruz algorithm was then applied to what the campaign calls an «enhanced voter file,» which can contain as many as 50,000 data points gathered from voting records, popular websites and consumer information such as magazine subscriptions, car ownership and preferences for food and clothing.

The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.

Dubbed Facebook's «collapse» of public trust, the double revelation that Cambridge Analytica, ostensibly a voter - profiling company, collected the data of 50 million Facebook accounts without user permission, and that thousands of third - party developers built apps on Facebook's platform to gather private information has spurred international outrage.

A personality research app he created gathered the personal information on 270,000 Facebook users, as well as data on those users» friends, amplifying the reach to the tens of millions when it passed that data to Cambridge for a voter targeting scheme.

Though the users were assured that this information was gathered for academic research, but the data was leveraged by Cambridge Analytica to target and influence voters with specific personality types.

Christopher Wylie, one of the founders of Cambridge Analytica, says he regrets his role in the gathering of data on U.S. voters.

As you gather these data, you feed them back into the voter file and — here's the key part — adjust your models (and hence your outreach targeting) accordingly.

New British Election Study data gathered at approximately the same time that the Green membership surge started in the autumn of 2014 includes a decent sample of more than 1,000 voters claiming that they intend to support the Greens in the forthcoming general election.

These contradictory conclusions were drawn from virtually the same polling data, gathered from some 400 would - be voters in late July.

In the first meetings with partner groups like Planned Parenthood and the League of Conservation Voters, «we decided to make sure that everyone was using the same data and working out of the same database,» he said, allowing the groups to feed the supporter data they were gathering into one file.

But the administration has been silent on what if any rights voters should have regarding the data gathered about them.

Gielow says U.S. voters must decide the acceptability of data collection from all sources, adding, «Ultimately, an unmanned aircraft is no different than gathering data from the GPS on your phone or from satellites.»

Because the voters speak different languages, Yasseri and Bright gather data separately from each of 14 language versions of the site.

As part of the larger project, I gathered data on the names and zip codes of school district employees in a stratified sample of 70 California school districts, all of them unionized, and I matched these names to county voter files to get each employee's voting history.

Christopher Wylie, one of the founders of Cambridge Analytica, says he regrets his role in the gathering of data on U.S. voters.

The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.

While reportedly working for multiple political campaigns, the firm gathered data from millions of social media accounts to develop a mechanism that would predict and influence the behavior of voters.

The French president hinted at the latest scandal, involving Cambridge Analytica, which gathered Facebook users» private data to analyze voter behavior.

While reportedly working for multiple political campaigns, the firm gathered data from these millions of social media accounts to develop a mechanism that would predict and influence the behavior of voters.

While working for major political campaigns, the firm gathered data to develop a mechanism that would predict and influence the behavior of US voters.

June 20, 2017: Last year, the Republican National Committee hired Deep Root Analytics, a data analytics firm, to gather political information about U.S. voters.

But with the kind of data Cambridge Analytica had, they would have been able to target, let's say, the 12 voters in Riverdale, Arkansas, who it gathered had not made up their minds on whom to vote for, but had a high probability of moving.

The firm reportedly worked for multiple political campaigns, including for President Donald Trump's campaign during the 2016 election, and gathered data from social media accounts to develop a mechanism that would predict and influence the behavior of voters.