Consensus is boring! Washington still won’t pay big bucks for predictions.
Guest Post Think Washington power brokers are ready to pay big bucks for Nate Silver's predictions? Probably not – his numbers are too good. Yes, too good.
Boy, they were wrong! Critics called Nate Silver a ‘numbers racket’ and a ‘joke’.
Guest Post Nate Silver's crime? Standing by the projections of his proprietary statistical model that have predicted the results of the last two elections with stunning accuracy.
Election 2012 is big-data nerds’ gut punch to traditional punditry
November 7, 2012 12:38 PM
Christina Farr
Editor's Pick The world's best number crunchers did more than predict the outcome of the presidential election. They may have helped a candidate get elected.
