Nate Silver. Ever hear of him? No worries, I hadn’t either. But apparently he is a statistical whiz who made a pretty shocking prediction of what the election outcome would be.
Not only does social media play a large role in influencing people’s decision before an election, but it causes things to go viral even after the election. Nate Silver, who used social media as one tool for determining who the predicted victor would be, has been trending after the polls closed. Twitter is an important tool for making predictions, analyzing peoples opinions, spreading new opinions, and solidifying popular trends. Already there are memes being generated and this comparison picture is getting shared around, perhaps you’ve seen it!
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Here’s more background: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2012/11/10/science/nate-silver/#.UJ5Jfd8SKvw.facebook.
Perhaps I’ll buy his book http://www.amazon.com/Signal-Noise-Many-Predictions-Fail-but/dp/159420411X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1352687494&sr=1-1&keywords=nate+silver ? 🙂
ogdahlj4846
Not going to lie, this is pretty sweet. Although it is a good idea of what state is going to vote Democrat and Republican this fills us in with the toss up states like Wisconsin and Ohio. It is pretty cool to see that he was right on both of those states even though it was a pretty good idea that the Democrats would win both. But this is pretty awesome all in all.
kruegerk4319
Love this! I love looking at what other people think compared to what actually happens! Although like Jordan said it is pretty obvious, it’s always fun to see what actually happens when this was such a close race! Also, thank you for introducing me to Nate Silver! 😀
ptaktc
wow, thanks for sharing! Crazy how accurate that is..
brittanyzimmer
i cant believe that some people are this good and can actually predict the way that the states are going to vote. I was watching some of the predictions on the night of the elections and most of them were just downright awful. Its amazing that one person actually knew what was going to happen.