Editor's Note: Noise Pollution: Why more data isn't better data
What Nate Silver's "The Signal and the Noise" can teach publishers
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Brian Howard
I'm writing this note on Election Day Eve, and while the world is eagerly reading Nate Silver's political predictions in his excellent New York Times blog FiveThirtyEight, I've been tucking into Silver's new book, "The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don't" (Penguin Press).
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