You’re probably going to see election forecasts more this month, and one candidate…
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Presidential election still a toss-up
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Communicating Probability and Odds to People
As election day in the United States draws closer, the probabilities, odds, and forecasts are in full swing, which gives us a chance to check the ways in which we currently communicate the fuzzy numbers.
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Nate Silver critiques the new 538 forecast model
Nate Silver, who left Disney and the FiveThirtyEight brand last year but took…
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Consumer confidence in current economic conditions
For NYT Opinion, Nate Silver compares consumer confidence between two surveys. The University…
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FiveThirtyEight layoffs
Disney began more layoffs, and data-centric FiveThirtyEight, which is owned by Disney, was…
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Less Time With Methods, More Time With Questions and Context (The Process #61)
Data represents the real world, and visualization represents data. But sometimes data and the real world disagree with each other.
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Most creative
Nate Silver topped Fast Company’s list of 100 most creative people in business.
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Nate Silver Discusses Data Bias, Strangeness of Fame
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How Silver predictions performed
By way of Rafa Irizarry from Simply Statistics, a plot of Nate Silver’s…
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A quick lesson on making predictions
Political analyst and statistician Nate Silver has gotten some flack lately for consistently…