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
Nate Silver: U. of C. grad gets it right
Nate Silver was right. The Gallup Poll was wrong. Silver, 34, a University of Chicago graduate and the computer expert who gave Obama a 90 percent chance of winning re-election, predicted on his blog, FiveThirtyEight (for the number of votes in the ...www.chicagotribune.com
Karl Rove, read Nate Silver
Delicious sour grapes, in all. Fair judgments, too. Yet Rove has yet to learn what many others have taken away from Nov. 6, namely that New York Times election forecaster Nate Silver rules. Rove presents his Silverian ignorance right here: The ...www.washingtonpost.com
'Drunk Nate Silver' tweets are adding up in Los Angeles
Gawker, BuzzFeed and others followed the tweet-trail to his Wednesday night communique: "Drunk Nate Silver is riding the subway, telling strangers the day they will die.www.scpr.org
Statistician Nate Silver explains his forecasting in "The Signal and The Noise"
New York Times blogger and statistician Nate Silver defied the experts when he correctly predicted the outcome of the presidential election.today.msnbc.msn.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
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
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.reuters.com
How did Nate Silver Get the Election Odds so Wrong?
Nate Silver, founder and chief blogger at fivethirtyeight is an amazing political analyst who appears to have the ability to predict election outcomes almost perfectly.www.physicscentral.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
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
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 2012: Has Nate Silver destroyed punditry?
The classic exposition of these views was "Nate Silver: One-term celebrity?" a piece by Politico's Dylan Byers published on October 29.www.csmonitor.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
Another winner: Nate Silver's 'The Signal and the Noise'
And he took one author with him: Nate Silver. "The Signal and the Noise," Silver's explanation of how he does what he does, has climbed to No.www.latimes.com
Nate Silver vs. Kim Jong Un - by Amy B. Zegart
The presidential election is finally over and Nate Silver won. It was a "revenge of the nerds" moment: The data geek bested many of the cool kid pundits and their time-honored tradition of predicting election results based on gut feel, a favorite poll ...www.foreignpolicy.com
Nate Silver After the Election: The Verdict
At Forbes, John McQuaid, a former reporter for The Times-Picayune of New Orleans, spells out the issues nicely in a post entitled "Three Lessons for the Nate Silver Controversy." First, he writes, "the modelers are here to stay." He's right. Next, he ...www.huffingtonpost.com
Nate Silver and The New York Times: The Origin Story
Nate Silver has proven to be -- along with Ann Romney, moon bases, and Trapper Keepers -- one of the breakout stars of the 2012 presidential campaign.www.theatlantic.com
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