Nate Silver, famous for accurate political predictions, and his team relaunched fivethirtyeight.com, a website focussed on mining data and interpreting it, under ESPN sponsorship on St Paddy’s day. FiveThirtyEight.com covers a range of current issues from economics to science to sports in a thoughtful, useful way. Though a US focus predominates, that’s OK in a world where the US burps and everyone smells what was for lunch.
For example, have a look at their three rules for data scepticism.
Wikipedia: FiveThirtyEight
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