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Biographical Information
G. Elliott Morris is a data-driven journalist and author living in Washington, DC. He writes the best-selling Substack newsletter Strength In Numbers and helps run the polling aggregation and election prediction website FiftyPlusOne.news.
Elliott was formerly the Editorial Director of Data Analytics at ABC News, where he developed polling aggregation and election-forecasting models and managed the research and data visualization teams for ABC’s data-journalism website FiveThirtyEight/538. He was a regular guest on the network’s broadcast and streaming news programs providing political analysis on notable events and upcoming elections.
From 2018 to 2023 Elliott was a Senior Data Journalist and US Correspondent for The Economist, where he covered American politics, public opinion polling, demographics, and elections. Elliott was the lead developer of the paper’s election forecasting models, including for US presidential elections and several European countries. From 2020 to 2023 Elliott also wrote a weekly data column for the paper’s “Checks and Balance” newsletter on US politics.
Elliott has given guest lectures on polling and election forecasting at universities including MIT, Harvard, George Washington University and the University of Texas at Austin (his alma mater). He is also a frequent round-table guest and keynote speaker and has delivered addresses to clients ranging from academic institutions and data journalism organizations to major firms and Fortune 500 companies, both foreign and domestic.
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Books
Strength In Numbers: How Polls Work and Why We Need Them (2022)
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Publisher link: W.W. Norton
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