"Betting on Ideas" featuring Dave Pennock in Communications of the ACM March Issue
The U.S. presidential elections offer social scientists and statisticians many avenues for dissecting the mood of the nation. Among the well-publicized polls and surveys conducted by well-known and well-funded organizations, a lowerkey method of capturing the likely outcome of the election—prediction markets—is steadily gaining attention from academic researchers and business leaders for use beyond elections, movie box-office earnings, and sporting contest outcomes.
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