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• We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that.

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  Different, Needs, Way

  "Hit political blogger Nate Silver on future of predictive modeling". Interview with David K. Randall, www.reuters.com. November 9, 2012.

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• If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.

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  Thinking, Yesterday, Glory

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• In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.

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  Baseball, Data, Creative

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• Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.

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  Overcoming, Rooms, Tough

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• I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.

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  Trying, Tricky

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• I don't think you should limit what you read.

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  Thinking, Limits, Should

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• I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation.

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  Vacation, Needs, American Food

  "Nate Silver on His Hollywood Future and 'Moneyball'-ing Box Office" by Daniel Miller, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 14, 2012.

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• You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.

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  Want, Treats, Persons

  "Nate Silver: it's the numbers, stupid". Interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2012.

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• If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.

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  President, Events, Tvs

  "What's The Electoral Impact Of The Debt Debate?". "All Things Considered" with Michele Morris, www.npr.org. August 2, 2011.

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• A lot of things can't be modeled very well.

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  Wells

  "Hit political blogger Nate Silver on future of predictive modeling". Interview with David K. Randall, www.reuters.com. November 9, 2012.

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• Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.

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  Masquerade, Accurate, Forecasts

  Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.39, Penguin

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• Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.

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  Opportunity, Remember, Congress

  "What's The Electoral Impact Of The Debt Debate?". "All Things Considered" with Michele Morris, www.npr.org. August 2, 2011.

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• I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.

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  Thinking, Problem, Really Great

  "Nate Silver on His Hollywood Future and 'Moneyball'-ing Box Office". Interview with Daniel Miller, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 14, 2012.

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• The problem is that when polls are wrong, they tend to be wrong in the same direction. If they miss in New Hampshire, for instance, they all miss on the same mistake.

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  Mistake, Missing, Problem

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• Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.

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  Election, Boring, Midterms

  "NATE SILVER: As Tempting As It Would Be To 'Drop The Mic' And Leave A Winner, I'll Be Back In 2014 And 2016" by Walter Hickey, www.businessinsider.com. November 14, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Names, Choices, Quality

  "Nate Silver on His Hollywood Future and 'Moneyball'-ing Box Office". Interview with Daniel Miller, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 14, 2012.

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• I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.

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  New York, Paper, Week

  "Talking Shop: Nate Silver". Interview with Megan Garber, archives.cjr.org. November 11, 2008.

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• It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis.

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  Analysis, Littles, Strange

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• A lot of the time nothing happens in a day.

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  Happens, Things Happen

  "NATE SILVER TO JON STEWART: 'People Are Too Hyper About The Polls'" by Grace Wyler, www.businessinsider.com. October 18, 2012.

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• I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.

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  People, Blunt

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• I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.

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  Thinking, People, Feels

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• I think punditry serves no purpose.

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  Thinking, Purpose

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• People have different ways of interpreting history.

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  People, Different, Way

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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