Wang's statistics blog forecasts 2012 election
As the University enjoys its last year under the current president, the rest of the country is preparing to elect its next one. This coming election season, a subset of the University community will do more than cast its vote and wait expectantly — these students will be actively documenting and predicting the outcome on a day-by-day basis, up until the very night the results are in.Since the 2004 presidential election, the Princeton Election Consortium, a blog run by molecular biology and neuroscience professor Sam Wang, has given political junkies a place to visualize and interpret massive amounts of polling data under one streamlined, statistically consistent roof.