“Barack Obama may have comfortably won re-election in the electoral college, and squeaked a victory in the popular vote. But here is the absolute, undoubted winner of this election: Nate Silver and big data.”

via Triumph of the Nerds: Nate Silver Wins in 50 States.

Nate Silver is a statistician and political blogger (FiveThirtyEight – Nate Silver’s Political Calculus) for The New York Times. His statistical forecasts for the 2012 American Presidential Election were amazingly accurate and are a great case study for validating the importance and value of big data.