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Kuchikomi Prediction Analyses 2009 Japan Lower House Elections

As promised in a prior post, I’ve finished the data entry for the Kuchikomi (クチコミ総選挙) election predictions. The Kuchikomi election prediction algorithm was created by hottolink (ホットリンク) and it is based on internet chatter (口コミ). The algorithm parses through information on the internet from mass media to blogs on individual politicians and parties to produce a prediction percentage based on historical data. You can I guess think it as a souped up Google [...]