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July 30, 2011

Like Reading Messages Hidden Deep Inside Microwaved Bullshit? The Obama Campaign's Hiring!

Predictive Modeling and Data Mining Scientists/Analysts at Obama 2012 Presidential Campaign, Chicago, IL
We are looking for Predictive Modeling/Data Mining Scientists and Analysts, at both the senior and junior level, to join our department through November 2012 at our Chicago Headquarters. We are a multi-disciplinary team of statisticians, predictive modelers, data mining experts, mathematicians, software developers, general analysts and organizers - all striving for a single goal: re-electing President Obama.

Using statistical predictive modeling, the Democratic Party's comprehensive political database, and publicly available data, modeling analysts are charged with predicting the behavior of the American electorate. These models will be instrumental in helping the campaign determine which voters to target for turnout and persuasion efforts, where to buy advertising and how to best approach digital media.

Our Modeling Analysts will dive head-first into our massive data to solve some of our most critical online and offline challenges. We will analyze millions of interactions a day, learning from terabytes of historical data, running thousands of experiments, to inform campaign strategy and critical decisions.

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Five minutes of decent 'predictive modelling' would be enough to prove their man is screwed ... but of course you never put the final conclusion in the first report.

Posted by: Brett_McS at July 30, 2011 4:52 AM

But... but... but predictive modelling works so *well* at showing how we're now all drowning in glacial meltwater!

Posted by: BillT at July 30, 2011 5:40 AM

"Like Reading Messages Hidden Deep Inside Microwaved Bullshit?" - you outdid yourself with that one.. I nearly fell off my desk chair!

Posted by: RedCarolina at July 30, 2011 6:45 AM

Now.. I have to wonder.. was this before or after Obama lost 40,000 Twitter followers?

Posted by: RedCarolina at July 30, 2011 6:46 AM

UNESCO should have a lot of untasked stats folks running around now, right?

Posted by: TmjUtah at July 30, 2011 9:43 AM

"Five minutes of decent 'predictive modelling' would be enough to prove their man is screwed"

Well, let the Obama campaign waste half a billion dollars for it. It would be quite satisfying for all Americans in the end.

Meanwhile, we now have Pat Caddell. Google him.

Posted by: newton at July 30, 2011 10:33 AM

Newton's right.

Definitely a "shovel ready" project, so hand 'em each one. There may not be a pony in the pile, though.

Posted by: Ric Locke at July 30, 2011 12:00 PM

No mention of good old fashioned Democrat voter fraud or voter intimidation? Acorn and Black Panthers falling down on their jobs? hmm. Now that is the hidden message inside the microwaved bullshit. But, hey.. whatever makes them feel "intellectual"...

Posted by: RedCarolina at July 30, 2011 5:21 PM

Hopefully, they'll do as well in 2012 as the Democrats did in 2010.

Posted by: ELC at July 30, 2011 7:41 PM

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