Which country has the most accurate voting record at Eurovision? A data analysis
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Summary
A data-driven analysis exploring which country has been the most accurate at predicting the Eurovision Song Contest's final top 10 rankings. The author, a Eurovision fan more interested in voting dynamics than the music itself, formalizes a mathematical metric to measure voting accuracy — comparing each country's jury votes against the actual final results. The article fills a gap in existing Eurovision research, which typically focuses on voting blocs and bilateral biases rather than voting accuracy.
Key quotes
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Which country has voted the best in Eurovision? That is, which country was best at picking the eventual top 10 and in the right order?
Strangely enough, while there's plenty of work on voting blocs and bilateral biases at Eurovision, most of it asks who votes for whom; I wanted to ask who votes accurately.
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