Pundits Vs. Machine: Predicting Controversies In The Presidential Race

Quid, a data analytics firm, uses proprietary software to search, visualize and analyze text. Quid, a data analytics firm, uses proprietary software to search, visualize and analyze text. Predictions are for psychics -- and in this very unpredictable political season they might do a better job than the pundits. I set out to see how well it could predict which controversies around the candidates were likely to re-emerge over the course of a month. And two human pundits have agreed to compete against the machine.