Gujarat polls: Hyderabad start-up launches crowd-sourced results predictor

The predictions gathered on its platform would be made public on December 14

Hyderabad-based market analytics startup Idealantis Technologies is using the upcoming Gujarat elections to test a crowd-sourced election results predictor. It has developed a more accurate and cost effective alternative to the sample survey-based election prediction models.
 
The ‘Gujarat Election Predictor’ would be based on the predictions of people who join the firm's App and share and change their opinions or responses at several intervals. The underlying software algorithms would make the projections based on the basic feedback.
 
The data sourced from the crowd would cover the number of seats that would be won by the main parties and