fivethirtyeight sucks
In Defense of Nate Silver -- and Math
More than a few Bernie Sanders supporters have popped into my various social media mentions to inform me that Nate Silver and FiveThirtyEight.com were brutally wrong on the Michigan primary. Obvious analysis is obvious. The polling was historically wrong -- perhaps the most ...read more
The Secret Formula Behind FiveThirtyEight's 'Songs of Summer' Playlist
I don't know what I was expecting when I saw that data-nerd site FiveThirtyEighttweet that they had a "Songs of the Summer" playlist. Was Nate Silver jumping on Tiny Victories' latest album like I had? Doesn't Carl Bialik seem like a dude who would be into Scandanavian indie ...read more