Nate Silver, founder of FiveThirtyEight.com, was interviewed at Adobe Summit 2015. His views on the future of analytics and what made him successful are pretty interesting. Check it out on our Digital Tech blog
Question: You are also an entrepreneur. One thing you have to do is how to communicate the data. How do you and your colleagues do that?
The first part of it is to understand the question. We are trying to avoid putting three unrelated items together. We are doing basic techniques and then communicate it. If you can’t communicate the method then you missed. He used an example of an academic paper with bad writing that can obscure brilliant insights.
Question: So, if you don’t know your data then you should be a poor writer?
We want our writers to know their subject and data really well. We try to reverse the shouting and screaming when people don’t know their topic.
