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(FiveThirtyEight.com)
Nate Silver created a remarkably accurate computer system that projects stats for baseball players and teams. Now he's turned his attention to polling data for the presidential election with his website Five Thirty Eight. Silver explains how his site can out-perform the polling firms, whose data he relies on.
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Comments [2]
"Not So Much" from Philly is ... Fullofit. Nate, you're a f****n' genius! Thanks for putting this together!
These "poll puree's" are just fads.
I'll stick with Gallup.
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