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> 538 is awash with numbers but the algorithms used to generate them are the very definition of "eye-of-newt and other secret ingredients". I agree. I much pre

by mikevm 13y ago

> 538 is awash with numbers but the algorithms used to generate them are the very definition of "eye-of-newt and other secret ingredients". I agree. I much prefer the (simpler) work of Sam Wang from the Princeton Election Consortium (http://election.princeton.edu/ http://election.princeton.edu/) who did release MATLAB code of his work and his data sources so you could do it yourself. Somehow, Nate Silver got all the media attention though.

obstacle1 13y ago
>Somehow, Nate Silver got all the media attention though. Yes, somehow the young, geekily attractive popular sports author, whose blog on an extremely popular alternative news site grew a significant cult following, got all the mainstream media attention. It is extremely surprising that said media attention did not go to the duo of crusty, obscure, highfalutin Ivy-league academics instead. Somehow, that happened. How, we'll never know.