Nate Silver has become today's leading statistician through innovative analyses of political polling. Silver, the author of the NYTimes.com blog fivethirtyeight, will discuss his new book, The Signal and The Noise: Why Most Predictions Fail - But Some Don't. Silver takes us on a tour of modern prediction science, uncovering surprising connections among humility, uncertainty, and good results.
Cornell's Survey Research Institute and Departments of Information Science and Statistical Science are all proud to welcome this speaker and invite our communities to come listen to this discussion.