Stats n stats n stats

Since we have one of the most intense political races in recent history it's always interesting to see stats on how things shape up. Behind every good database are good stats. This underscores a bit what Gumby has been harping on, without the numbers you really don't have credibility when shaping opinion. Lies, damn lies and statistics... I love it. I do like stats, and well, this is somewhat related to what we do in our daily database world. One of the more interesting stats sites for politics is fivethirtyeight.com . This guy has a lot of chatter about polls right now, and backs a lot of it up with stats. It's almost legalised gambling. :-) So anyway without further drivvle... http://www.fivethirtyeight.com <== The owner of this website was interviewed by Dan Rather on HDNet ==> http://www.hd.net/danrather.html The guy that runs this site, Nate Silver, is young, smart, and ( for Gumby's sake ) is from Chicago. Very good interview if you catch it on satellite. DirecTV has HDNet in case you're interested. They will be rebroadcasting his interview over the next week or so. Anyway, if you're into stats, it was very interesting to hear from the mind behind the web site. I'm almost willing to bet though that it ain't Informix under the hood though, but thats another thread... -ID-