SOCIAL: Finding Fame With a Prescient Call for Obama

[Tom Radulovich]

New York Times profile of statistics nerd Nate Silver, who founded  
fivethirtyeight.com. Fivethirtyeight was an outlier among the  
pollsters from early on, projecting Obama winning by a huge margin  
(348.6 electoral votes, the result of a probability split of the North  
Carolina votes between Obama and McCain. He turned out to be quite  
close, but underestimated the Obama win (Indiana and one of the  
proportionally-allocated Nebraska electoral votes went to Obama,  
giving him 365 votes).

Anyhow, happy to see progressive nerds in the limelight.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/business/media/10silver.html?_r=1&em&oref=slogin

Tom Radulovich
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