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Re:Nate Silver Went Against the Grain for Some at The Times by mikevm on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @01:00AM (#6088327)
> 538 is awash with numbers but the algorithms used to generate them are the very definition of "eye-of-newt and other secret ingredients".

I agree. I much prefer the (simpler) work of Sam Wang from the Princeton Election Consortium (http://election.princeton.edu/) who did release MATLAB code of his work and his data sources so you could do it yourself. Somehow, Nate Silver got all the media attention though.

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Re:Nate Silver Went Against the Grain for Some at The Times by obstacle1 on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @02:16AM (#6088485)
>Somehow, Nate Silver got all the media attention though.

Yes, somehow the young, geekily attractive popular sports author, whose blog on an extremely popular alternative news site grew a significant cult following, got all the mainstream media attention. It is extremely surprising that said media attention did not go to the duo of crusty, obscure, highfalutin Ivy-league academics instead.

Somehow, that happened. How, we'll never know.

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