Tuesday, August 21st, 2018
Rahul Gandhi Turns to Big Data and Project Shakti to Take On Modi in 2019
Congress president Rahul Gandhi is relying on big data to strengthen his party’s weak booth-level organisation ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha election. In February he was shown an analysis suggesting that better management of polling booths alone could have raised the party’s vote share by 4%, and lifted its 2014 tally of 44 seats to at least 90. What Project Shakti is Gandhi then set up a team of data analysts led by political economist Praveen Chakravarty, which became the AICC’s Data Analytics Department. It created “Project Shakti”, anRead More