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 ...Show More
Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library 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. Hide
Statistics are often just history. They're saying, 'Here's a really fiscally rich description of som 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. Hide
Nate Silver's FILMOGRAPHY
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