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Nate Silver
Nate Silver is a statistician, writer, and founder of The New York Times political blog FiveThirtyEight.com. Silver also developed PECOTA, a system for forecasting baseball performance that was bought by Baseball Prospectus. He was named one of the world's 100 Most Influential People by Time... show more

Nate Silver is a statistician, writer, and founder of The New York Times political blog FiveThirtyEight.com. Silver also developed PECOTA, a system for forecasting baseball performance that was bought by Baseball Prospectus. He was named one of the world's 100 Most Influential People by Time magazine. He lives in New York.
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Birth date: January 13, 1978
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Ecletic Reader
Ecletic Reader rated it 11 years ago
Insightful, interesting, and filled with interesting discussions of how predictions can fail. I really enjoyed that Nate Silver stuck to his own advice when providing ways to make more accurate predictions. He was not overconfident and did settle for one simple and right answer. This should be requi...
katiewilkins186
katiewilkins186 rated it 12 years ago
I love data. I thought I should just get that geeky admission out of the way since my love of this book is largely based on my love of data and the cool things we can do with it. Nate Silver is an awesome statistician best known for his model that has done a great job predicting election winners. In...
Brick
Brick rated it 12 years ago
An excellent read, with very detailed insights into areas in which Silver has a wealth of personal experience, including limit Texas Hold'em, baseball statistics used in forecasting player performance, and political polling, combined with insights derived from extensive interviews with top practitio...
lisa's reviews
lisa's reviews rated it 12 years ago
Way too many numbers for me.
Kaethe
Kaethe rated it 12 years ago
First things first: skip the introduction. It's more boring than any other section, and all it tells is what the general outline of the book is. You can get that from the contents.This is a book which is very well-researched, and well-reasoned, with apt examples. The net result is that what Silver i...
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