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Nate Silver Talk at Google
Nate Silver has come to prominence recently through the seemingly simple method of predicting election results through statistics. I’ve just finished reading his book, The Signal and the Noise and it’s certainly one of my favourite books of the year. It covers all sorts of predictions, in baseball, chess, politics, earthquakes, terrorism, stocks, and more besides. If I were to recommend a Christmas book for a maths geek, then this would be the one.
He recently gave a Google talk which you can see here:
Thanks for providing this video. I read “The Signal and the Noise” and was fascinated and I followed the 538 Blog through the elections. Nate Silver is very interesting guy and I am sure that he and the Google folks feel very comfortable together. The insights gleaned from this video are a real treat.
Happy New Year!
It’s certainly one of the best books I read in 2012 but it hasn’t made much of an impact here in the UK.