In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.

I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.

You can build a statistical model and that's all well and good, but if you're dealing with a new type of financial instrument, for example, or a new type of situation - then the choices you're making are pretty arbitrary in a lot of respects.

Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.

To my friends, I’m kind of sexually gay but ethnically straight.

Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise.

In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.