fivethirtyeight
blending predictit market data
I've had a chance to look over the Nov 2nd prediction market data.
It called ME-2, Florida, NC, Georgia for R, versus the D calls by 538 (https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-election-forecast/)
AZ, NE-2, PA, etc were called same by PI/538. Same for Ohio, Iowa, Texas, etc.
Georgia is probably going to be D, but still I think it's pretty clear PI out-performed this time in the prez market.
PI had a slight R house effect. Similar in 2018
Are you blending PI data? latest is easily available here -https://www.predictit.org/api/marketdata/all/ (pipes out json if you request from python)
Senate predictions look the same, but PI caught some house markets that 538 did not - NM and Oklahoma didn't flip to D. The rest of the house seem to be the same calls.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/final-2020-house-forecast/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/final-2020-senate-forecast/
Here's the data from Nov2. I captured it the same time 538 froze their predictions.
https://github.com/blazespinnaker/predict/blob/main/Nov2PI
If you can upload the poll data from 2020, that'd be helpful.