Breaking Down Election Week in the US: Security, Technology, Data + Beyond
It’s been a roller coaster of a week in the U.S., with an election on Tuesday that we figured would be a nail biter. A lot of things came into play — pollsters getting it wrong, social media insanity and propaganda were commonplace, and the importance of data and analytics for projections has never been more important. On this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, I’m joined by my colleagues and fellow analysts Olivier Blanchard and Ron Westfall as we take a look at what went down, what we saw from an analysts’ point of view as well as a look at the impact of the election on the market this past week. We explored the following: Voting laws are complicated, and the reasons that we are, as expected, waiting for results even though that’s frustrating. Election security and voter trust in the system What the Department of Defense did this time around to combat cyberattacks The role of the USPS in all the uncertainty around the election The impact of data on polling, messaging, targeting, and on vote count projections How AI models underperformed And what happened with the US stock market and why In summary, it’s been an interesting week. Find us over at Futurum Research https://futurumresearch.com