Re: Stats n stats n stats

A follow up on Nate Silvers' fivethirtyeight.com. The Dan Rather Interview is on http://www.fivethirtyeight.com ! Great interview. -ID- InDeep wrote: > 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-