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" I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation. "
Nate Silver
Need
Vacation
American
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" Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight movie. "
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Every Day
Library
Three
" When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake. "
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Predict
Mistake
You
" If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it. "
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Think
Reason
Glory
" Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public. "
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Congress
Get
Opportunities
" 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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Yourself
Boring
Data
" Voters memories will fade some. "
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Some
Fade
Memories
" When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen. "
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Human
Happen
Funny
" If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy. "
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Busy
Computer
Looked
" 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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Competition
Looking
Politics
" 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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People
Acting
You
" Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge. "
Nate Silver
Noise
Both
Knowledge
" Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you ask Americans if you think it's a good time to invest in stocks, except it goes the opposite direction of what you would expect. When the markets going up, it in fact makes it more prone toward decline. "
Nate Silver
Better
Good
Direction
" Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election. "
Nate Silver
Still
Race
Every
" I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve. "
Nate Silver
Become
Transcend
Power
" I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs. "
Nate Silver
I Think
Journal
Lot
" Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately. "
Nate Silver
Elections
Unfortunately
Boring
" Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak. "
Nate Silver
Much
Cold
Hot
" People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it. "
Nate Silver
Know
Light
Information
" To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance. "
Nate Silver
Yourself
Find
Know
" 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. "
Nate Silver
Human
Sure
Time
" I have the same friends and the same bad habits. "
Nate Silver
Habits
Bad
Bad Habits
" 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. "
Nate Silver
Fame
Internet
Kind
" We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that. "
Nate Silver
Living
You
Online
" A lot of things can't be modeled very well. "
Nate Silver
Very
Modeled
Lot
" I've just always been a bit of a dork. "
Nate Silver
Just
Always
Been
" The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information. "
Nate Silver
Making
Yourself
Key
" By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes. "
Nate Silver
Speed
You
Up
" It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis. "
Nate Silver
Kind
Little
Strange
" 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. "
Nate Silver
Expertise
Good
Kind
" I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.' "
Nate Silver
Experiment
Think
Behavior