To support colleagues who find technology integration challenging, here are some suggestions: Lead by example and introduce some of the easier tools or apps to begin with to boost confidence and then share outcomes generated through their use.
Scott and the team were quick to support our plan to create a responsive web app and connect through the browser: "We always imagined this would be a downloadable app … but the most important thing was ease of access and the ability to share outcomes".
We will begin by looking at absolute vote share outcomes.
One is collaborative research where both university and external partners produce something and share outcomes altogether under a contract.
Then, we develop a model to try and predict absolute vote share outcomes for different political parties.
First, we look at the use of page view data in predicting absolute vote share outcomes for individual parties.
Second, we look at the use of this type of data in predicting changes in vote share outcomes when compared to previous elections.
These models provide evidence for the idea that Wikipedia page view data is correlated with vote share outcomes; however, the improvement in predictive accuracy is very modest.
Hence overall while Wikipedia might technically be considered a predictor of absolute vote share outcomes, it can offer only a marginal improvement on baseline models.
The Monte Carlo analysis demonstrated order-of-magnitude variability in mode share outcomes only for the SER policy.
A little over a month later, the remarkable power-sharing outcome can, I believe, serve as a model: Call it the Nairobi paradigm or Annan's R2P marker.
