Posts Tagged as ‘Nate Silver’

March 17, 2009

Instant mindmaps

During each day’s keynote interview, an artist standing at the foot of the stage draws a graphic representation of the conversation. The way these mindmaps are drawn is one of the most amazing things to witness live. This instantaneous development of creative content from everyday communication is inspiring.
Here’s the mindmap from Nate Silver’s discussion of [...]

March 16, 2009

Broken models lead to failure

The Sunday keynote interview featured Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight.com, a political website that was created prior to the ‘08 presidential election that used a unique algorithm to predict the outcome. His career started by using an innovative approach to analyze baseball statistics, and this election allowed him to take the approach to a new level. [...]