Nate Silver
Nate Silver was born Nathaniel Read Silver in East Lansing, Michigan, to Sally (Thrun), a community activist, and Brian David Silver, a professor of political science at Michigan State University. He is a statistician and writer, who gained national acclaim when he correctly predicted the winning candidate in 49 out of the 50 states in the 2008 U.S...
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Nate Silver was born Nathaniel Read Silver in East Lansing, Michigan, to Sally (Thrun), a community activist, and Brian David Silver, a professor of political science at Michigan State University. He is a statistician and writer, who gained national acclaim when he correctly predicted the winning candidate in 49 out of the 50 states in the 2008 U.S. presidential election on his blog, FiveThirtyEight.com. He successfully predicted the winner of all 50 states in the 2012 elections. Show less «
Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in it's entire print col...Show more »
Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in it's entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or thirteen-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next 'Twilight' movie. Most of it is total fucking irrelevant noise. So unless you have good techniques for filtering and processing the information, you're going to get into a lot of trouble. Show less «
Statistics are often just history. They're saying, 'Here's a really fiscally rich description of something that happened in the past'. It do...Show more »
Statistics are often just history. They're saying, 'Here's a really fiscally rich description of something that happened in the past'. It doesn't always predict the future, especially if you don't understand the causality. Show less «
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