Nate Silver Quotes
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We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.
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I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
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Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.
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If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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A lot of things can't be modeled very well.
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.
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Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight movie.
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When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.
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It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis.
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By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.
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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
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Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.
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The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.
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I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation.
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I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'
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Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.
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You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.
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I've just always been a bit of a dork.
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Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.
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If you're keeping yourself in the bubble and only looking at your own data or only watching the TV that fits your agenda then it gets boring.