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Big Promises And Big Problems: Nate Silver Talks Big Data

caption: Nate Silver in KUOW's green room.
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Nate Silver in KUOW's green room.
KUOW Photo/Bond Huberman

Ross Reynolds talks with Nate Silver, editor in chief of the ESPN's FiveThirtyEight blog, about the promise and peril of using big data to make predictions.

He is also the author of "The Signal and The Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don't."

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