Nate Silver Gets Real About Big Data

[Terrence Dorsey]

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While it has become de rigueur to ascribe all sorts of supernatural powers to Big Data, one of the world's most celebrated statisticians, Nate Silver, is far more circumspect about it. If anything, according to Silver in his book The Signal and the Noise, Big Data carries the potential to cloud our decisions by introducing far more noise than it does signal. It's an interesting position for someone who makes a living predicting the future, and one that directly counters other expert opinion.

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