Perhaps no one has done more for the cause of data-driven decision-making in the minds of the public than Nate Silver. His book, The Signal and the Noise, explains the power of statistical modeling to improve our predictions about everything from the weather to sports to the stock market. Data science is the hottest field to be in right now, and Silver is its poster child.
Nate Silver on Finding a Mentor, Teaching Yourself Statistics, and Not Settling in Your Career
How to become data literate.
September 24, 2013
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