Tag: Statistics
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NOMINATE Application Deep Dive
If you are a reader of data journalism, it’s likely you’ve seen partisan scores quantified; odds are, those partisan scores were generated with DW-Nominate. DW-Nominate comes from the NOMINATE family of multidimensional scaling applications, developed by Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal in the 1980s. NOMINATE applications use roll call voting data (or the individual…
Data Driven Politics 