Geeky Statistician Nate Silver Takes Social Media By Storm
Nate Silver is a popular man today, after offering on the New York Times' FiveThirtyEight blog what turned out to be far more accurate predictions for the election than many reputable polls. Social media is exploding with adulation for the geeky numbers cruncher.
Nate Silver is a popular man today, after offering on the New York Times’ FiveThirtyEight blog what turned out to be far more accurate predictions for the election than many reputable polls. Social media is exploding with adulation for the geeky numbers cruncher.
Silver, who graduated from the University of Chicago, first demonstrated his skills as a statistician when he created the baseball forecasting system PECOTA. His blog first appeared on the New York Times in 2010.
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