This is a repository for the Info 2950 overarching project. Our project is about election demographics and making voter turnout predictions.
Elections are multi-faceted events, and everything from campaigning to the vocabulary in candidate's speeches is carefully chosen and analyzed [1, UVA text-analysis of speeches]. However, an often overlooked [2, article explaining voting turnout] aspect of the election is whether or not a U.S. Citizen will actually complete the political process. Our project seeks to address this issue by simply asking whether or not a given person (based on a number of factors) will actually cast their ballot.
Our main research question is: can we predict the probability that a voting-eligible person living in the United States will actually vote?
We’ll also consider the following question: how do voting trends change over time?
Within this repository, you'll find the answers to those questions, as well as our complete process for getting our answers.