Multivariate Fun

Every several years the Pew Research Center publishes a political typology study in which they divide up the American electorate into nine different groups based on values, political beliefs, and party affiliation. I like these sorts of cluster analyses. It’s even better if you get to play with the original data. The Pew folks are very good about releasing the original datasets: you just have wait six months after the report was published. The typology dataset came out last Thursday, and I’ve been having fun today going through their analyses. I’ve reached no conclusions yet, though.