Jordi Aymerich, Professor of Marketing at the Faculty of Economics and Business Organization of the University of Barcelona, explains how Nate Silver's prediction about Barack Obama's victory It's pure mathematics.
According to the expert professor in Market Research: "The beauty of the Nate Silver phenomenon is that he has only invested his time in collecting data and has been right, while the political parties have spent millions of dollars to find out and have not been right."
Coincidentally… Last year general elections were held in Andorra. And it was the moment chosen by the company Hamilton Intelligence to analyze the behavior of the electorate in said elections. According to their conclusions, the number of mentions of the candidates and political parties on Twitter throughout the second week of the Andorran electoral campaign has had a result that has proportionally corresponded to the final result of the elections held on April 3, 2011. An experience that on a local scale has similarities with the NYTimes blogger.
