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The Signal and the Noise

Why so many predictions fail - but some don't

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Peter Hoogendijk
@plhetp · Online Marketeer
Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair’s breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger—all by the time he was thirty. With everything from the health of the global economy to our ability to fight terrorism dependent on the quality of our predictions, Nate Silver’s insights… See more
Jacob Bendicksen
@jacobbendicksen · student @yale
Love this book -- great intro to statistics in the 'real world.'
Vishal Agarwal
@vishal1982 · CMO @ Choxi, CEO @ Itsacheckmate.com
This book became kind of surreal for me because I started reading it about 2 weeks before the election (Nov 8th, 2016) and finished right around the election time. Obviously during the election all one could hear and read about was Nate Silver (and to an extent Sam Wang?) so to hear him talk & tweet about his strategies and then be reading the book at th… See more