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.

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.

Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.

Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.

One of the pervasive risks that we face in the information age, as I wrote in the introduction, is that even if the amount of knowledge in the world is increasing, the gap between what we know and what we think we know may be widening.

A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.