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Nate Silver: The Signal and the Noise (Hardcover, 2012, Penguin Press) 5 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'

5 stars

Greatly enjoyed this book, and not just because it touches on baseball, weather, games and politics. Very savvy explanations of how too much data makes finding insights harder and not easier, and how a Bayes interpretation (properly applied) can provide the best predictions. An excellent point towards the end about how predictions should be judged on how they perform in the future rather than how they apply to past data.

Well footnoted, indexed, and edited. The epub was not the fastest read - will probably buy this when the revised version comes out as a trade paperback. Recommended.