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-

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-