ESPN The Magazine has an interview with Nate Silver on his predictive success with sports and political races. (ESPN) Money quote:
Compared to politics, sports is much more civil and reasonable.
ESPN The Magazine has an interview with Nate Silver on his predictive success with sports and political races. (ESPN) Money quote:
Compared to politics, sports is much more civil and reasonable.
Topics: Statistics, Data Analysis, politics, Nate Silver, ESPN, sports, Predictive Analytics
and was only off by 400,000 on the popular vote. How ya like big data now? VentureBeat has the story. (VB)
See out previous coverage of Nate Silver here.
Topics: presidential election, big data, Statistics, Data Analysis, Nate Silver, Predictive Analytics
Sports Illustrated had a short but entertaining article on Nate Silver, which can be found here. Silver is a predictive savant and has been turning his powers to all manner of events. His political blog can be found here.
Topics: Elections, Statistics, 538, Data Analysis, Sports Illustrated, Nate Silver, Predictive Analytics, Analytic Talent