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Nate Silver: The Signal and the Noise (Hardcover, 2012, Penguin Press) 4 stars

Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within …

Review of 'The Signal and the Noise' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Hastily written: wonder why publishing firm desired such a quick turnaround that factcheckers and proofreaders couldn't be used. Still, the book's content lives up to its name: chapters visit historical examples of events and phenomena where expert forecasters were misled into thinking signal was noise, and how data collection and analysis have, in some disciplines, improved.