Datagotchi: the voting-prediction tool keeps learning new things

. Released in September during the Quebec provincial elections, the app analyzes people's lifestyles to give a better idea which party they'll cast their ballot for. CONTENU - People's everyday habits may not correlate perfectly with their voting behaviour. But the research team behind a made-in-Quebec app called Datagotchi has found a significant link between lifestyle and voting preference. After the Oct. 3 provincial elections, compiling the data collected from their app, they found evidence that points towards strong associations between certain lifestyles and the main political parties. Nadjim Fréchet, a PhD candidate in political science at Université de Montréal, was part of the Université Laval research team that developed Datagotchi.