US elections: hunch vs. crunch? No contest

John Leonard
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Analyst Nate Silver beats political pundits into second place by predicting results 100 per cent correctly

In what is inevitably (but erroneously) being touted as a victory for "big data" over political punditry, US statistician and blogger Nate Silver has been thrust, blinking through erudite specs, in...

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