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.
It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis.
Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.
In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.
I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.