Data-driven political campaigns in practice: understanding and regulating diverse data-driven campaigns

Do Campaigns Really Change Behavior? New Understanding of the Behavioral Effects of Advertising, Political Campaigns and Health Communication Campaigns

Enhancing Learning from Imbalanced Classes via Data Preprocessing: A Data-Driven Application in Metabolomics Data Mining

This paper presents a data mining application in metabolomics. It aims at building an enhanced machine learning classifier that can be used for diagnosing cachexia syndrome and identifying its involved biomarkers. To achieve this goal, a data-driven analysis is carried out using a public dataset consisting of 1H-NMR metabolite profile. This dataset suffers from the problem of imbalanced classes...

The Study of Political Campaigns

DO P O L I T I C A L C A M PA I G N S M AT T E R ? This question, like so many in political science, seems natural, important, and straightforward. Yet the answer founders on the difAculty of deAning both the subject and the predicate. What do we mean by political campaigns? How might they matter? This essay attempts to organize the study of campaigns by marking its boundaries and by ordering q...

Data-Driven Music Audio Understanding

The essence of music is structure; the composer Edgar Varèse called it “organized sound”. For centuries, people have responded to their enjoyment of music by studying and describing that structure, yet there is still no satisfactory description of what music is, much less how or why it works. This project proposes to describe and explain musical structure using automatic signal analysis and mac...

Lies, damned lies, and political campaigns

Despite a pervasive presence in politics, lying has not traditionally played a role in formal models of elections. In this paper we develop a model that allows candidates in the campaign stage to misrepresent their policy intentions if elected to office, and in which the willingness to lie varies across candidates. We find that candidates more willing to lie are favored, but that this advantage...