The Signal and The Noise

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  • Economics and Finance
  • Technology

Nate Silver, statistician and political forecaster at The New York Times.

Nate Silver reveals why most predictions fail, and shows how we can isolate a true "signal" from a universe of increasingly big and noisy data.

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