Nate Silver, hero of the new reality math based political world!
I, for one, welcome our new math, reality based overlords.
11/07/2012 @ 6:59PM |3,708 views
Nate Silver and the Rise of Political Data Science
For the last few months, the political pundit class has been at war with NYT/FiveThirtyEight blogger Nate Silver. Joe Scarborough of MSNBC called him a ‘joke,’ while an op-ed in the LA Times accused him of running a ‘numbers racket.’ The Examiner dismissed him as a ‘thin and effeminate man with a soft-sounding voice.’ Even the legendary David Brooks claimed that his work was ‘getting into silly land.’
His crime? Standing by the projections of his proprietary statistical model that have predicted the results of the last two elections with stunning accuracy. —->Continued