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Google Street View can predict how you will vote

Advances in AI are helping researchers to get and analyse data from large quantities of images

Published Mon, Jan 1, 2018 · 09:50 PM

New York

WHAT vehicle is most strongly associated with Republican voting districts? Extended-cab pickup trucks. For Democratic districts? Sedans.

Those conclusions may not be particularly surprising. After all, market researchers and political analysts have studied such things for decades.

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