Nate Silver is a statistician and political forecaster at The New York Times. In 2012, he correctly predicted the outcome of 50 out of 50 states during the US presidential election, trumping the professional pollsters and pundits. He was named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in the world, and one of Rolling Stones' top Agents of Change. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Outstanding... I was hooked
*Financial Times*
One of the more momentous books of the decade
*The New York Times Book Review*
A lucid explanation of how to think probabilistically
*Guardian*
The inhabitants of Westminster are speed-reading The Signal and the
Noise... They will find the book remarkable and rewarding
*Sunday Telegraph*
Is there anything now that Nate Silver could tell us that we
wouldn't believe?
*Jonathan Freedland*
Fascinating... our age's Brunel
*Sunday Times*
A surprisingly accessible peek into the world of mathematical
probability
*Daily Telegraph*
The Galileo of number crunchers
*Independent*
A 34-year old Delphic Oracle
*Daily Beast*
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