3 results for "Barfar, Arash"
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Does Television Viewership Predict Presidential Election Outcomes?
The days of surprise about actual election outcomes in the big data world are likely to be fewer in the years ahead, at least to those who may have access to such data. In this paper we highlight the potential for forecasting the Unites States presidential election outcomes at the state and county…
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Pattern discovery, validation, and online experiments: a methodology for discovering television shows for public health announcements
OBJECTIVE: Public Health Announcements (PHAs) on television are a means of raising awareness about risk behaviors and chronic conditions. PHAs’ scarce airtime puts stress on their target audience reach. We seek to help health campaigns select television shows for their PHAs about smoking, binge…
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Explaining Compassionate Release: A Machine Learning Study of Sentencing Modifications & Judicial Decision Making
In 2018, Congress passed the First Step Act, amending 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) to permit federally incarcerated individuals to directly petition district courts for early release. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of individuals did so, citing staggering prison death rates and…