Poll results: look who's doping

Whos In the Picture

The context in which a name appears in a caption provides powerful cues as to who is depicted in the associated image. We obtain 44,773 face images, using a face detector, from approximately half a million captioned news images and automatically link names, obtained using a named entity recognizer, with these faces. A simple clustering method can produce fair results. We improve these results s...

Analyzing Online Sentiment to Predict Telephone Poll Results

The telephone survey is a common social science research method for capturing public opinion, for example, an individual's values or attitudes, or the government's approval rating. However, reducing domestic landline usage, increasing nonresponse rate, and suffering from response bias of the interviewee's self-reported data pose methodological challenges to such an approach. Because of the labo...

Is the Publication of Exit Poll Results Morally Permissible?

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Ianr Program Support: Results from the Nebraska Rural Poll

Another look into decomposition results

In this note we identify a simple setup from which one may easily infer various decomposition results for queues with interruptions as well as càdlàg processes with certain secondary jump inputs. Special cases are processes with stationary or stationary and independent increments. In the Lévy process case, the decomposition holds not only in the limit but also at independent exponential times, ...