Big Data Rock Star
For those who don’t know, Nate Silver is is quite possibly the Andy Warhol that big data has been looking for. Silver emerged from obscurity when he created the Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm (PECOTA), which is used for evaluating and forecasting the development of baseball players. He later sold it to Baseball Prospectus.
Not satisfied with a sports exclusive lens, Silver set his sights on politics and proceeded to rewrite the rules of the narrative...
