Since 2004, ranked choice voting (RCV) has taken off in dozens of jurisdictions across the country. Multiple cities in the Bay Area, both Twin Cities, and the entire state of Maine have all rolled out their own versions of ranked choice voting. But this June, the...
In 2020, Deck was actively used by 1,142 campaigns and organizations to target the right voters, efficiently allocate resources, and track their progress through Election Day.
At Deck, we build predictions using an approach we call “contextual inference.” Most predictive models in politics are trained on survey responses. Those responses are then generalized to a broader audience based on the demographic and socioeconomic traits of the...
Running complex predictive models on huge datasets can be a pain. At Deck, we’re really feeling that pain. Every day, our product runs several models on almost 13 billion rows of data — representing every campaign/voter relationship for the offices we support. It’s...