Forecasting Election Polls with Spin Systems

no code implementations • 9 Jul 2020 • Ruben Ibarrondo, Mikel Sanz, Roman Orus

We show that the problem of political forecasting, i. e, predicting the result of elections and referendums, can be mapped to finding the ground state configuration of a classical spin system.

Combinatorial Optimization Sentiment Analysis Physics and Society Statistical Mechanics Quantum Physics