Vote prediction by iterative domain knowledge and attribute elimination

Authors:
Anthony Scime;Gregg R. Murray
Affiliations:
Computer Science, SUNY College at Brockport, 350 New Campus Drive, Brockport, NY 14420-2933, USA.;Political Science, SUNY College at Brockport, 350 New Campus Drive, Brockport, NY 14420, USA
Venue:
International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining
Year:
2007

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Abstract

Data mining the American National Election Study (ANES), a rich but disparate source of information about Americans' vote choices, is the focus of this research. Specifically, we use data mining classification to construct a decision tree to select important predictors of the vote from the more than 900 items that compose the ANES. We use an iterative domain expert and data mining process to identify a limited number of survey questions intended to predict for which party an individual will vote in a presidential election or whether that individual will vote at all.