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Nate Silver, a stats whiz, who came up with an algorithmic model for his election statistics blog, fivethirtyeight.com, beat the pundits and called the elections accurately in all 50 states. His blog is licensed and hosted by the New York Times since 2010. It gives an electoral vote estimate and the probability of each candidate winning for each state is given. In 2008, Silver’s model predicted 49 out of 50 states. On Monday, traffic on his blog accounted for 20% of the New York Times’ traffic. He is another big winner in the 2012 elections.
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