Richard Reeves: Catching Up With Big Data – Truthdig

ShutterstockThis is a column about “Big Data” and a new way to predict the results of presidential elections for the next 20 years.We begin with the rise of Nate Silver, the former baseball statistician retained by The New York Times, and his blog, “FiveThirtyEight,” which accurately predicted the results of the 2008 vote in 49 of the 50 states. He […]