IOTO International

Developing/testing performance metrics for politicians

Problem Statement

Performance metrics in sports have seen remarkable growth and development. What if we turned some of these mathematical tools on political performance? Building on last year’s M2PI project, the goal of this year’s project is to analyze data related to the activities of legislators in Canada and the USA with a view to developing engineered features which might reflect political performance. These engineered features should be granular enough to significantly inflect during the course of a parliamentary or legislative session, providing quantitative and comparative performance insight.

Skills

A background in statistics or graph theory would be helpful. Some experience with computer programming or data science may be helpful, but is not necessary.

William Spat
William Spat
Founder & CEO, IOTO International
Adam Kashlak
Adam Kashlak
Assistant Professor
Shen-Ning Tung
Shen-Ning Tung
Postdoctoral Fellow
Mitch Haslehurst
Mitch Haslehurst
PhD candidate
Sam Simon
Sam Simon
PhD student
Guojun Ma
Guojun Ma
Graduate student
Aniket Joshi
Aniket Joshi
PhD student