Sub-Matrix Factorization for Real-Time Vote Prediction

This repository contains the data and code to reproduce the experiments of

Immer, A.*, Kristof, V.*, Grossglauser, M., Thiran, P., Sub-Matrix Factorization for Real-Time Vote Prediction, KDD 2020

Quick Links

• The real-time data for Switzerland are available in a Zenodo repo.
• The platform for real-time vote predictions in Switzerland is available at www.predikon.ch.
• Here is a PDF version of the paper.
• The swissvotes library provides a scraper for the real-time Swiss referendum vote results.
• The predikon library provides a standalone implementation of the algorithm proposed in the paper:

pip install predikon

Experiments

Check the experiments folder.

Real-Time Predictions

Check the real-time folder.

Generate Figures

Check the figures folder.

Cite This Work

@inproceedings{immer2020submatrix,
  author = {Immer, Alexander and Kristof, Victor and Grossglauser, Matthias and Thiran, Patrick},
  title = {Sub-Matrix Factorization for Real-Time Vote Prediction},
  year = {2020},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 26th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery \& Data Mining},
}

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