Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in it's entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or thirteen-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next 'Twilight' movie.

Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.

All I know is that I have way more stuff that I want to write about than I possibly have time to.

Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in it's entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or thirteen-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next 'Twilight' movie.

Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.

If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.

On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.