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brit: I just used Google Trends to predict who will win American Idol. It’s not even a contest. davemorin: An interesting experiment. I’ll post what it looks like through the lense of Facebook… Then I did the same query at wikirank (sans Matt Giraud because of a wikirank comparison limitation): We all get the same results: Adam Lambert FTW! Any other metrics we could look at?

brit:

I just used Google Trends to predict who will win American Idol. It’s not even a contest.

davemorin:

An interesting experiment. I’ll post what it looks like through the lense of Facebook…

Facebook Lexicon fb prediciton

Then I did the same query at wikirank (sans Matt Giraud because of a wikirank comparison limitation):

wikirank Idol prediction

We all get the same results: Adam Lambert FTW!

Any other metrics we could look at?

#data   #american idol   #wikipedia   #google   #facebook   #graph   #visualization  
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    Then I did the same query at wikirank (sans Matt Giraud because of a wikirank comparison limitation): We all get the...
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    An interesting experiment. I’ll post what it looks like through the lense of Facebook in another post.
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