What Nate Silver’s NHL Would Look Like
Visualizing the Times analyst’s recommendations about realigning the league to put more teams where hockey fans live.
Visualizing the Times analyst’s recommendations about realigning the league to put more teams where hockey fans live.
The Cougar Town star addresses the lesbian rumors. Meanwhile, Rupert Everett opens up about his sexual history and Nate Silver gets on AMA in this week’s snippets.
Poker pro Bob Voulgaris, who was featured as a basketball betting genius in Nate Silver’s book The Signal and the Noise, gets a lot of crap on Twitter from haters, so he put on a masterclass in trolling.
The man who correctly predicted the 2012 election explains how those two worlds come together.
While we hail our new numbers overlord, culture’s obsession with the detail-obsessed threatens to make dreary bores of us all. (via modernistcuisine.com)
He’s like The Onion Joe Biden of election forecasters.
The god of election predictions admits calling one thing wrong.
Based on the most important indicator, of course.
All hail!
Winning in the polls, Democrats talk process. Republicans rail: We should win.
Part of the model’s appeal: “It’s been saying Obama’s going to win.” Silver finds the attachment a bit unnerving.
Nate Silver’s newest reader: Stu Stevens.
An “obsessive following” in Chicago, and a confidentiality agreement.
Nate Silver returns, this time to determine the unhealthiest fast food sandwich using math. The chart uses one (1) KFC Double Down as a unit of comparison, though it turns out that the DD isn’t actually the unhealthiest in statistical terms. (CONGRATS TO WENDY’S!) View Image ›
This map, based on the always-impeccable stats of Nate Silver (dreamy!), shows when we can expect gay marriage to finally be legal all across the Union. See you at the big party sometime between 2021 and 2024, if the world hasn’t ended by then. View Image ›
A highly scientific pie chart. Of COURSE Nate Silver makes major life decisions via pie chart. Meanwhile, this is still the only pie chart I need. View Image ›
FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver, who shocked the world by so closely predicting the Presidential race, has moved on to spoiling another one of our pastimes: The Oscars. I don’t have to say it but, SPOILER ALERT: If we’ve learned anything from the past, this Nate Silver knows what he’s talking about.
Nate Silver’s Oscar Predictions. [Editor’s Note: Nate Silver, whose poll-tracking site FiveThirtyEight.com was close to perfect in its presidential election predictions, has finally turned his analytical abilities to something useful.]
A Gallup report seems to suggest there are only five states left where republicans have a significant party-affiliation advantage. The governors of Utah and Alaska are already contenders for the republican nomination in 2012, and there may not be much other competition. View Image ›
A profile of the radio host-turned-Nate Silver basher by the late David Foster Wallace. Wallace gives the man a lot more thought and sympathy than he deserves, which is why DFW was DFW and John Ziegler is a blowhard.
Stats nerd/genius Nate Silver (of Baseball Prospectus and FiveThirtyEight) is making the rounds as the interest in election stats grows. He was on The Colbert Report last night, and FiveThirtyEight remains one of our favorite sites to check when the latest news about the Dow has us down. Read More ›
An electoral poll aggregator that tries to adjust for a poll’s historical performance. It’s a stats paradise! See also: Perspectv Read More ›
