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Math and Discipline — Why Nate Silver's Accuracy Isn't About "Big Data"

“Big data” isn’t what the Nate Silver story highlights. It highlights data curation, management, analysis, publication, iteration, and integrity, none of which “big data” guarantees.

Book Review: Nate Silver's "The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — But Some Don't"

Nate Silver’s new book tackles many topics — Big Data, the problem with scientific statistics, chess, baseball, gambling — with style and substance. There’s a lot of signal here.

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Math and Discipline — Why Nate Silver's Accuracy Isn't About "Big Data"

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