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IIS officers get a taste of Trump’s campaign (Campaign Data Mining)
The Hindu ^ | July 21, 2018 | Nistula Hebbar

Posted on 07/24/2018 5:45:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Top campaign leader offers them data-mining tips

What can Indian Information Service (IIS) officers, at the vanguard of government communication, gain from Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in what is a crucial election year ahead? Plenty, if you go by the fact that the IIS Association invited Avinash Iragavarappu, the executive director of Mr. Trump’s campaign in Arizona, to do a presentation on how to mine big data for tailored communications.

Speaking to The Hindu, Mr. Iragavarappu, an IIM-Lucknow alumni who worked with the YSR Congress Party campaign in 2014, said the association had asked him to do a presentation on big data and its uses in targeted communication.

Significantly, Mr. Trump’s campaign was also marked by the fact that much of the mainstream media was hostile to him once he cleared the Republican primaries. Yet he managed to win, a fact that has not escaped the notice of the ruling party in India....

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TOPICS: Campaign News; Parties; State and Local
KEYWORDS: datamining; demographics; india; trump
No one is asking Hillary's geniuses for advice?
1 posted on 07/24/2018 5:45:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is it anything like that massive database that Obama built for the Democrats on every voter in America?


2 posted on 07/24/2018 6:08:14 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Spygate's clock began in 2015 - what did President Obama know and when did he know it)
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To: a fool in paradise

Ssssshhhhh...Maxine wasn’t supposed to let that cat out of the bag.


3 posted on 07/24/2018 6:14:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And Trump has yet to be credited for his win. Sure he had some help, but he was a pretty good ringleader. Match any businessman against a Politician and I’ll choose the former everytime. Politicians don’t really know the consequences of failure.


4 posted on 07/24/2018 6:18:20 PM PDT by dgbrown
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