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"But to anyone who follows baseball seriously, this was like finding out that a guy anonymously running a high-fashion Website turned out to be Howard Cosell. At his day job, Silver works for Baseball Prospectus, a loosely organized think tank that, in the last ten years, has revolutionized the interpretation of baseball stats. Furthermore, Silver himself invented a system called PECOTA, an algorithm for predicting future performance by baseball players and teams. (It stands for “player empirical comparison and optimization test algorithm,” but is named, with a wink, after the mediocre Kansas City Royals infielder Bill Pecota.) Baseball Prospectus has a reputation in sports-media circles for being unfailingly rigorous, occasionally arrogant, and almost always correct.""While the polls were wobbling wildly state-to-state, the demographic groups supporting each candidate, and especially Clinton and Obama, were remarkably static."

"A study of all the different ideas people have about Web 3.0 was posted by Jonas Bolinder, and fell into four categories - * Semantic Web * APIs and Web Services * Mobile Web and other devices * Implicit Web (personalisation and rec

"the strongest correlation in betting was found among people who sat very close to one another, trumping even friendship or other close social ties. This is tangible evidence, the authors argue, that information is shared most easily and effectively among