Nate Silver Data Quotations

I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.

On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.

When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen

If you're keeping yourself in the bubble and only looking at your own data or only watching the TV that fits your agenda then it gets boring.

In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.

Data-driven predictions can succeed-and they can fail. It is when we deny our role in the process that the odds of failure rise. Before we demand more of our data, we need to demand more of ourselves.

Finding patterns is easy in any kind of data-rich environment; that's what mediocre gamblers do. The key is in determining whether the patterns represent signal or noise

Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.