In this Data Project I have analyzed two datasets from the 2012 election.
The first data set is the results of political polls. I have analyzed the aggregated poll data and answer some questions:
The data for the pollshas been obtained from HuffPost Pollster. http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/2012-general-election-romney-vs-obama.csv
- Who was being polled and what was their party affiliation?
- Did the poll results favor Romney or Obama?
- How do undecided voters effect the poll?
- Can we account for the undecided voters?
- How did voter sentiment change over time?
- Can we see an effect in the polls from the debates?
The second data set is the information on donations to the federal campaign. The following are the questions I tried to answer while looking at this Data Set:
- How much was donated and what was the average donation?
- How did the donations differ between candidates?
- How did the donations differ between Democrats and Republicans?
- What were the demographics of the donors?
- Is there a pattern to donation amounts?