Sarah Palin Wardrobe Break-Even Analysis

palinshmulaLet’s face it: sometimes, people vote not based on character, policy position, or anything else that might be important or substantial.  Sometimes, people vote for a candidate because of the candidates’ fashion sense.

So, if we were to quantify the price of a vote (in terms of revenue), the total cost of Sarah Palin’s wardrobe, and the variable costs for a voter, we can calculate how many votes Sarah Palin will need to off-set the costs of her Wardrobe.  Below is a picture of what that Sarah Palin Wardrobe Break-Even Analysis might look like:

palinshmulaLet’s face it: sometimes, people vote not based on character, policy position, or anything else that might be important or substantial.  Sometimes, people vote for a candidate because of the candidates’ fashion sense.

So, if we were to quantify the price of a vote (in terms of revenue), the total cost of Sarah Palin’s wardrobe, and the variable costs for a voter, we can calculate how many votes Sarah Palin will need to off-set the costs of her Wardrobe.  Below is a picture of what that Sarah Palin Wardrobe Break-Even Analysis might look like:


Sarah Palin Pareto

palinshmulaWhat if we organized all of Sarah Palin’s speeches into an unstructured corpus and ran a word-frequency linguistic analysis on that corpus?  A Pareto Analysis of word-frequency in Sarah Palin’s speeches will give us a sense of what she cares about the most, assuming that [what she utters is what is on her mind] and [what is on her mind is what she cares about the most].

palinshmulaWhat if we organized all of Sarah Palin’s speeches into an unstructured corpus and ran a word-frequency linguistic analysis on that corpus?  A Pareto Analysis of word-frequency in Sarah Palin’s speeches will give us a sense of what she cares about the most, assuming that [what she utters is what is on her mind] and [what is on her mind is what she cares about the most].