polls_us_election_2016 {dslabs}R Documentation

Fivethirtyeight 2016 Poll Data

Description

Poll results from US 2016 presidential elections aggregated from HuffPost Pollster, RealClearPolitics, polling firms, and news reports. The dataset also includes election results (popular vote) and electoral college votes in results_us_election_2016.

Usage

polls_us_election_2016

Format

An object of class "data.frame".

Details

Source

The original csv file used to create polls_us_election_2016 is here: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/general-model/president_general_polls_2016.csv

The data for results_us_election_2016 is from Ballotpedia and can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zxyOQDjNOJS_UkzerorUCf2OAdcMcIQEwRciKuYBIZ4/pubhtml?widget=true&headers=false#gid=658726802/

Examples

head(polls_us_election_2016)

[Package dslabs version 0.8.0 Index]