During last week's first-of-many hearing into the IRS scandal, one subplot emerged: Conservatives presented anecdotes to argue that the IRS didn't just target Tea Party groups seeking tax exempt status but a broader swath of conservative individuals and organizations. But the anecdotal evidence does not stand up to the data on tax audits.
Politico's Dylan Byers made a mistake last October, poking the Nate Silver beast. And to this day, Silver takes every available opportunity to humiliate and mock Politico, particularly when it engages in data analysis.
Silver has finally delivered his Oscar picks, refining his method of forecasting the awards so they're more in line with his election picks — or at least better than his so-so history of calling the Academy Awards.
It seems that Politico reporter Kenneth Vogel has now taken up where fellow tribute Dylan Byers has fallen by — get this — dissing Nate Silver's knowledge of campaign financing!
The king of all geeks thinks the would-be king of all Super PACs is about to watch his house of campaign cards implode, which could actually lead to something of a Tea Party resurgence.
Sure, he was on-point during the 2012 election, but before you place your bets behind the bespectacled number genie, remember that he predicted that this would be a Seahawks-Patriots Super Bowl — and that he's gotten a little better at the politics game than anything else.
After (semi) apologizing to Nate Silver for doubting his spot-on statistical insights into the 2012 presidential election, Joe Scarborough's gut instinct is now telling him to go after another guy who knows his data: Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman.
Nate Silver has made a life for himself by predicting things. He is not bad at it, either. He is right more often than he is wrong, except when it comes to football.
Somewhere in the midst of a long thread about his future at The New York Times, baseball, Chuck Hagel, gun control, and more, Silver let out that, sure, he might have changed his tone "n terms of pushing back at the pundits."
The most noxious, wrongheaded, misleading, silly, and downright awful pieces of punditry to somehow end up in print or online this year.
America's favorite data geek has brought his trademark analysis to the newfound gun control discussion today, breaking down what gun ownership in the country looks like numerically.
Only one doubter remains: Dylan Byers, the media reporter at Politico, who called asked if Silver was a one-term celebrity and is now clinging to the deafening noise of punditry to combat the unstoppable number wizard.
Saturday mornings are sluggish and awful and you're just going to sleep in today anyway, so why not start your day with a serious conversation between Conan O'Brien and noted Cookie Monster fan, and occasional analytic genius, Nate Silver.
Doing the simple math, seven times, carry the — Nate Silver is not fond of Politico, and he says as much in a new interview released today. And that's news because Silver is such a big player in the political field and so is Politico, and well, for political wonks, this little catfight is delicious.
The tens of thousands of people hoping you got all of your numbers wrong have made tonight's drawing an unavoidable thing, thanks to the numbers being bandied about on social media.
After an election season that saw him become a (White) household name as his once-niche polling blog embarrassed the American punditocracy, Nate Silver and The New York Times can do pretty much anything they want — both he and his boss today agreed on that.
Nate Silver jokes have truly reached saturation. At the annual turkey pardoning ceremony Wednesday afternoon, President Obama said the statistician "nailed it."
There is a 100-percent chance that after spending years and many blog posts predicting the outcome of the election, Nate Silver did not vote, he said during a Q&A on Deadspin.
Nate Silver is a really boring drunk and might be a witch but only on his off days when he's not feeling quite like himself. At least that's what he said in a new interview where he debunked some of the fun memes that popped up after the election.
Noreen Malone on Megyn Kelly, Seth Mandel on Republican governors, Margaret Carlson on female senators, Jay Ulfelder on forecasting world politics, Damien Ma on China's last ten years.
Since Nate Silver was also declared one of Tuesday night's election winners two competing memes involving the now heroic statistician have popped up on Twitter: "Drunk Nate Silver" and #natesilverfacts.
Today in books and publishing: Apple and publishers settle with EU anti-trust regulators; Nate Silver gets a book sales bump; R.I.P. Patrick O'Connor; hallucinating with Oliver Sacks.
After weeks of bearing the brunt of anti-poll, anti-math attacks from people on the right, Nate Silver and his FiveThirtyEight election model can finally send the world a big fat "I Told Ya So."
Some time between waiting for his appearance on The Colbert Report and fighting off math-hating haters, New York Times future predictor Nate Silver went all in on Obama Monday night.
Two pundits have dominated the conversation (for different reasons) leading up to election day: Nate Silver and Karl Rove. They're both guessing a different outcome in 2012, but back in the heady days of the 2008 campaign they both predicted an Obama victory.
New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan has condemned Nate Silver for tweeting a bet to MSNBC's Joe Scarborough as unbecoming of a Times journalist.
Political polling guru Nate Silver is so confident in his statistical models that he just offered to bet MSNBC's Joe Scarborough $1,000 that Barack Obama will win re-election.
The New York Times' Nate Silver has created a model to predict the outcome of the presidential election that's watched by just about every pundit, and yet Silver's model refuses to perfectly reflect the conventional wisdom spouted by just about every pundit. The pundits do not like this!
The polling guru tells us the sources he loves and what he hates most about punditry.
Master prognosticator Nate Silver has released his first projections for the presidential election and his forecast gives a significant edge to President Obama ... for now.
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