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" I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have. "
Nate Silver
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" 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. "
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" I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience. "
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" I've just always been a bit of a dork. "
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" I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve. "
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" I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation. "
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" We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup. "
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" On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves. "
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" It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis. "
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" When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen. "
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" We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise. "
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" Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense. "
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" I think punditry serves no purpose. "
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" 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. "
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Looking
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" You get steely nerves playing poker. "
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You
" The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information. "
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Yourself
Key
" By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes. "
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You
Up
" Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office. "
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You
Know
" People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is. "
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" If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't. "
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Foreign Policy
Event
" In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it. "
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" Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press. "
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Before
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" I'm not trying to do anything too tricky. "
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Trying
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" I have the same friends and the same bad habits. "
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Habits
Bad
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" I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being. "
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Human
Sure
Time
" Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken. "
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Years
Some
" Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public. "
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Congress
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Opportunities
" The thing that people associate with expertise, authoritativeness, kind of with a capital 'A,' don't correlate very well with who's actually good at making predictions. "
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" When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there. "
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" First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views. "
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