Nate Silver Quotes
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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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We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.
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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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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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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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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
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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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In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.
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A lot of things can't be modeled very well.
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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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I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation.
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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.
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People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.
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I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.
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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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I've just always been a bit of a dork.
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Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.
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When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.
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You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.
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Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.