Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Nate Silver is About to be a Millionaire

So I've talked some about Nate Silver, who came up with the awesome algorithm that predicts both baseball and politics, and publishes all his predictions on his blog, fivethirtyeight.com.

Well, I'd like you to look at two maps. First, here we have Nate's final prediction on Monday:
Now, look at the electoral map as it was actually called last night:

Um, yeah, he pretty much nailed it. Someone needs to hire him immediately.

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