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Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.

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Nate Silver
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: January 13
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All I know is that I have way more stuff that I want to write about than I possibly have time to.
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To my friends, I’m kind of sexually gay but ethnically straight.
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I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.
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I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold myself up to such a high standard. I'm pretty serious about my fantasy football, though.
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I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.
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