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Nate Silver

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Nate Silver was born Nathaniel Read Silver in East Lansing, Michigan, to Sally (Thrun), a community activist, and Brian David Silver, a professor of political science at Michigan State University. He is a statistician and writer, who gained national acclaim when he correctly predicted the winning candidate in 49 out of the 50 states in the 2008 U.S. presidential election on his blog, FiveThirtyEight.com. He successfully predicted the winner of all 50 states in the 2012 elections.
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New York Times pollster.
Started the political poll analysis column FiveThirtyEight as a feature of the website Daily Kos in 2008. It later became a New York Times website feature in 2010, and then launched as its own website in 2013 and became an ESPN and later ABC News subsidiary.
In 2012, he correctly predicted all 50 states and DC in the U.S. presidential election.
In 2023, he left FiveThirtyEight amid layoffs at ABC News.

Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in it's entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or thirteen-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next 'Twilight' movie. Most of it is total fucking irrelevant noise. So unless you have good techniques for filtering and processing the information, you're going to get into a lot of trouble.
Statistics are often just history. They're saying, 'Here's a really fiscally rich description of something that happened in the past'. It doesn't always predict the future, especially if you don't understand the causality.
In the Unted States, gay marriage has gone from unthinkable to the law of the land in just a couple of decades. Homosexuality has gone from "the love that dare not speak its name' - something that could get you locked up, beat up, ostracized or killed, as is still the case in much of the world - into something that's out and proud, so to speak.

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