[Brownbag] Fwd: Nate Silver "Data Guru" on campus 5/4/14 (fwd)

[Liz Ozselcuk]

Dear Demography Brownbaggers:

in case you didn't hear about this elsewhere.  I'm assuming tickets will 
be limited and you need to act fast....

liz o.
Department of Demography

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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 18:19:54 -0700
From: Katie DUSTIN <kdustin at berkeley.edu>
To: c_a_n <c_a_n at lists.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Fwd: Nate Silver "Data Guru" on campus 5/4/14

Dear CAN,
Here's an event you may be interested in.

-- Katie

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Nate Silver, May 4
Zellerbach Hall

Infamous number-cruncher, blogger, and bestselling author Nate Silver has
managed to make statistics sexy, in a career that began with predicting the
World Series and moved towards uncannily accurate political forecasting on
his blog FiveThirtyEight.com. Named one of “The World’s 100 Most Influential
People” by Time magazine before he was thirty, Silver was voted “Coolest Man
of the Year” in the San Francisco Chronicle’s reader’s poll last year, after
accurately predicting 50 out of 50 states in the 2012 election (and 49 out
of 50 in 2008). “He changed how political campaigns are understood, showing
that in a data-saturated world, the masses hungered for someone who could
make sense of it all” (Crains New York).

Silver will discuss (among other topics) statistics and data, his latest
book, as well as his varied methods and their impact on the world of
analysis in sports, politics and journalism.

Tickets start at just $15 for Berkeley faculty and staff and can be
purchased here:http://calperformances.org/performances/2013-14/added-events/nate-silver.ph
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Katie Dustin
Business Analyst - Portfolio Management Office
Student Affairs Information Technologies (SAIT)
University of California, Berkeley
kdustin at berkeley.edu / 510-725-7280

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