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Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight movie.
— Nate Silver
Tags: every-day, next, library, day

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There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.
— Nate Silver
Tags: risk, unknown, always
You can build a statistical model and that's all well and good, but if you're dealing with a new type of financial instrument, for example, or a new type of situation - then the choices you're making are pretty arbitrary in a lot of respects.
— Nate Silver
Tags: situation, new, you, good
You get steely nerves playing poker.
— Nate Silver
Tags: poker, playing, get, you
If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
— Nate Silver
Tags: taking, representative, get, you
I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
— Nate Silver
Tags: believe, people, time, you
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