I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.

I don't think you should limit what you read.

I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.

Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.

Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense.

People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.

Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.