2016’s Election Data Hero Isn’t Nate Silver. It’s Sam Wang
2016’s Election Data Hero Isn’t Nate Silver. It’s Sam Wang
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
November 11, 20169m 44s
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Show Notes
Forget Nate Silver. There’s a new king of the presidential election data mountain. His name is Sam Wang, Ph.D. Haven’t heard of him just yet? Don’t worry. You will. Because Wang has sailed True North all along, while Silver has been cautiously trying to tack his FiveThirtyEight data sailboat (weighted down with ESPN gold bars) through treacherous, Category-Five-level-hurricane headwinds in what has easily been the craziest presidential campaign in the modern political era.
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