Nobody's perfect: Nate Silver and the imperfect art of prediction
By Andrew Mooney, Boston.com Correspondent. For one small subcommunity of America, the man who benefited the most from the country's decisions at the polls on Tuesday was not Barack Obama - it was Nate Silver, statistician and creator of the ...www.boston.com
Karl Rove, read Nate Silver
6, namely that New York Times election forecaster Nate Silver rules. Rove presents his Silverian ignorance right here: The president was also lucky.www.washingtonpost.com
What Republicans Can Learn from Nate Silver
Even in this enlightened age it can be tough to be a nerd. Conservative pundits derided the dweeby Nate Silver in the weeks leading up to the election for his insistence on reading poll numbers instead of tea leaves.blog.chron.com
Nate Silver correctly predicts election results in 49 of 50 states
Nate Silver, founder of the FiveThirtyEight blog, correctly predicted who would win 49 of 50 states in the 2012 presidential election.www.syracuse.com
Voice Your Opinions
But can he predict us another photo? (Robert Gauldin) I didn't predict I'd be writing my second post about Hilarious Nate Silver Memes in two days, but I'm sure Nate Silver did. The honeymoon between Nate Silver and the Internets continues full blast.www.washingtonpost.com
Nate Silver's Forgotten Dream: Picking Chicago's Best Burrito
Nate Silver is riding a post-Election Day high after he used statistics and analysis, instead of partisan bloviating, to predict Barack Obama's re-election.chicagoist.com
Michael Barone vs. Nate Silver: Don't count war-horse pundits out just yet
The final weeks of the presidential campaign shaped up not just as a battle between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, but between such number-crunching election prognosticators as Nate Silver and old war horses like Peggy Noonan and Michael Barone.www.boston.com
Nate Silver Visits 'The Daily Show'
Jon Stewart interviewed everybody's favorite election forecasting wizard Nate Silver on "The Daily Show" Wednesday night, a day after Silver's algorithm model proved to be successful once more in picking the winner of the presidential election.www.truthdig.com
Parsing polls: Nate Silver picks on target, Rasmussen not so much
The verdict is in on polling for the 2012 presidential race. New York Times statistical savant Nate Silver's projections came very close to the actual outcome on both popular vote and the electoral college.www.latimes.com
Nate Silver Takes A Victory Lap After Obama Re-election
With President Obama's re-election, New York Times blogger Nate Silver has reason to smile. Silver became a near-god for nervous Democrats, and, as the campaign entered its final stretch, a sudden subject of scorn and derision for some pundits who ...www.huffingtonpost.com
What Nate Silver's success says about the 4th and 5th estates
What Nate Silver's success says about the 4th and 5th estates. Kelly McBride by Kelly McBride Published Nov. 8, 2012 8:55 am.www.poynter.org
Making sense of polling data
It seems to me that Michael Gerson's unseemly ire toward Nate Silver is caused only by the unintended consequence of Mr. Silver's excellent work; Mr. Silver's analysis is a devastating critique of Mr. Gerson and his fraternity of political "experts ...www.washingtonpost.com
On the Beatification of Nate Silver
I've already written a couple of meandering posts on the topic of why I was never a Nate Silver skeptic but nevertheless found Nate Silver skepticism a respectable position. And Jonah has other useful things to say on the subject. But the occasion of ...www.nationalreview.com
Election surprises: Turnout ... Nate Silver's golden touch ... More
Pollsters and pundits no doubt were stunned by the accurate predictions of FiveThirtyEight blogger Nate Silver, who didn't back down from his pre-Election Day assertion that the Obama-Romney race was far from a tossup or neck-and-neck, even after he ...www.scrippsnews.com
My Lunch With Nate Silver
I first met Nate when he was in junior high school. My daughter was running for president of the student council and had promised Nate a date to the Spring Dance and a CD mix of Polish reggae music if he signed on as her pollster. At the beginning of ...www.huffingtonpost.com
Montana: Where Nate Silver got it wrong in Election 2012
Yet, again like many of you, I watched this year's election coverage with a certain level of neurosis and/or addiction. Early on, thankfully, I discovered Nate Silver's prophetic blog fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com. Soon I was checking it twice a ...www.patheos.com
Election Outcome: In Nate Silver We Trust
The day after the national election, statisticians were sharing in the glow of the praise heaped on New York Times columnist Nate Silver, who hit 50 out of 50 states in the presidential campaign. While facing considerable criticism from skeptics ...today.duke.edu
With sterling call, Nate Silver defines new wave in polling
After correctly predicting the results in 49 of the 50 states that have been called in the U.S. election (Florida remains too close to call), Nate Silver, the statistician behind the popular FiveThirtyEight blog, woke on Wednesday to find himself the ...www.chicagotribune.com
Among the top election quants, Nate Silver reigns supreme
While there's already been whole swimming pools of ink devoted to the Election Day prediction performance of polling aggregators like FiveThirtyEight blogger Nate Silver, CNET is ready to hand out one more round of kudos to the king of the quants. By ...news.cnet.com
Nate Silver tells Stephen Colbert election is 'not a coin toss'
But there's also a less critical subplot in this year's election: the battle between New York Times poll wizard Nate Silver and the rest of the pundit class. Also; How TV's great characters would vote (we think) Photos: How TV's great characters would ...www.latimes.com
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