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| Nate Silver's accurate forecasting of Obama's election victory last year brought him acclaim, and it also highlighted the importance of statistical literacy in our data-heavy age. The amount of data in our world is growing by 2.5 quintillion bytes a day – so the tools and skills we use to sort what Silver calls the signal from the noise are increasingly vital. Since the election Silver has continued to sift and predict on his blog at the New York Times, analysing topics such as the US vote for same-sex marriage, the election of the new pope and pet subject, baseball. | Nate Silver's accurate forecasting of Obama's election victory last year brought him acclaim, and it also highlighted the importance of statistical literacy in our data-heavy age. The amount of data in our world is growing by 2.5 quintillion bytes a day – so the tools and skills we use to sort what Silver calls the signal from the noise are increasingly vital. Since the election Silver has continued to sift and predict on his blog at the New York Times, analysing topics such as the US vote for same-sex marriage, the election of the new pope and pet subject, baseball. |
| On 3 May he's visiting the UK and there are two opportunities to see him talk probability, prediction and poker in person. At lunchtime he'll be talking at the Bristol Festival of Ideas, then later in the day he'll be in Shoreditch, London speaking at an event organised by Nesta called How to Think About the Future: Give Me the Numbers. | On 3 May he's visiting the UK and there are two opportunities to see him talk probability, prediction and poker in person. At lunchtime he'll be talking at the Bristol Festival of Ideas, then later in the day he'll be in Shoreditch, London speaking at an event organised by Nesta called How to Think About the Future: Give Me the Numbers. |
| To warm up for the event, Silver will be answering some of your questions about statistical matters in next Sunday's Observer. So please post a question below, email new.review@observer.co.uk or tweet us @ObsNewReview by 8 April. | To warm up for the event, Silver will be answering some of your questions about statistical matters in next Sunday's Observer. So please post a question below, email new.review@observer.co.uk or tweet us @ObsNewReview by 8 April. |
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