this is where we talk about nate silver's 'most livable neighborhood in nyc' ranking

would = woulda

have lived in 1, 17, 18 and 20

i question the ranking of #2, frankly

i mean it's expensive, debris-strewn, and filled with fucking douchebags at night

yeah, even worse, w/ the 'livability calculator' (http://nymag.com/realestate/neighborhoods/2010/65355/) it's the #1 neighborhood for "Young, Single, and Cash-Strapped"

yeah when I saw that I thought, "LES must be cheaper than I imagined"

and Greenpoint kid-friendlier than I imagined

LES ranking is totally bizarre--i dont understand what figures hes looking at to say that its cheap.

i voted prospect heights btw due to it feeling like one of the few places that has some combination of an interesting nightlife without an overwhelming jerkoff factor

a lot of individual stats are straight up wtf - for example: jackson heights scores 32nd on food and LIC scores 14th.

i voted prospect heights btw

<3<3 u rock

i mean technically i live in crown heights i guess??? but i spend 90% of my time in the prosp

there also should have been some kind of adjacent-neighborhood halo effect taken into account. a friend of mine who used to live in bk heights was like "sure brooklyn heights has mostly shitty bars and restaurants, but all the stuff nearby in cobble hill basically functions as part of the neighborhood"

xpost I live in P Heights proper

where did you move to, max? we should go to Washington Commons or something. I was just there the other day

freddy's r.i.p.

jackson heights scores 32nd on food

yeah that's completely messed up, I've gone to Jax Heights for food and it's an hour-plus away!

im at franklin & bergen! we should do a washington/vanderbilt bar crawl

to me #3 and #31 are alike in so many ways and the fact that they so far apart makes me think silver's "science" is dubious at best

yeah I really like inwood and was surprised it didn't do better, but sunnyside really profited from being #1 on the diversity statistic (and the fact that nate really, really low-balled sunnyside rents...)

wow I used 'really' 4 times in that sentence

also this is splitting hairs cause they're #1 and #2 and basically the same neighborhood....but there's no way sunnyside is more 'diverse' than woodside

this is the most relevant fact imo
When I moved to New York from Chicago last April

haha idk I've been here even less time than that

(and most native new yorkers that I talk to seem sorta proud of the fact that they never leave their immediate surroundings)

not that I'm claiming to be an expert on anything...more that I don't think that your average person who's been here 10 years really would have done a better job

I've lived in Crown Heights but voted for Washington Heights cause that's where I live now and repping for my hood!

yo where's the creative capital at?

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People sometimes say that Prospect Heights has OK nightlife. I live here, and like it for other reasons, but it doesn't. What do you have in mind? Soda Bar? The Vanderbilt? Washington Commons? er...

sure! i mean what do you mean by "OK nightlife"? all im looking for is a handful of bars with crowds that dont make me feel like committing suicide

when i lived in prospect heights, i liked washington commons. do not like franklin park usually. sepia is alright, was down the block from me. don't really like soda, or plan b. sharlene's has a trivia night we've been to a few times.

also, brooklyn museum's first saturdays are fun. (believe it or not.)

yeah im not a soda fan. franklin park is OK! and now has a good burger place attached. wash commons is good, i like woodwork so far. havent been to vanderbilt.

starlite lounge is fun but i guess thats crown heights

i mean i would 10000000% rather go out in p'spect heights than williamsburg or really anywhere in manhattan

I was forced to take G shuttle bus today; Greenpoint looks livable, but can I afford it? I'd love to pay less rent but I hate hate hate moving.

Also, Sunday Times pimping LIC in real-estate sec today.

also let's drink in P' Heights real soon huh?

trains were awful this weekend. we should do a p-heights fap some weekend soon tho.

i also was fucked by a shuttle bus today! noticed the G was fucked, took the L to the F without checking first & the F was also not running past jay street. took a shuttle bus and was half an hour late to meet a girl for scrabble. d'oh.

Dozens of trains fucked every weekend.

Bunch of bus stops in my nabe have notices of end-of-June service cuts - no overnight B67!

"meet a girl for scrabble"

easily decoded

avoided the g this weekend, but I love how the service advisories still often refer to forest hills - despite the fact that service past court square is officially 100% cut.

so is nate silver gay or what

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i'm going to delete my ilx login while playing a youtube of the smashmouth concert at the end of 'rat race'

there are no remaining questions left to be answered

wow!

for some reason I would have never guessed this

Oh Natepaws.

at first it seems kinda douchey otoh I don't really see the harm in nate silver making a buck however the hell he wants to, it's not like he's joining goldman sachs

hey he's the mind behind the 7th or 8th most accurate baseball statistical forecasting model.

still a better deal than the fuckin freakeconomics dude

wonder what the most livable hood is when you make $1k/hr?

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His book is really boringly written sadly. Not sure how much of this I'll be able to get through.

a statistician? boring? no way!

haha I find the fivethirtyeight and his baseball writing pretty good actually. This is just dragging. And anyway this book is about as much real statistics as Malcolm Gladwell's are social psychology or sociology or whatever.

yes, his baseball stuff was always engaging and readable.

fortunately I don't give a damn about everything he's done since, so never considered picking up this book.

alex have you read black swan? has its own problems writing style-wise (massive ego, abuse of footnotes) but boring not one of them

http://blogs.reuters.com/jackshafer/2013/07/22/nate-silver-and-a-general-theory-of-media-exodus

Silver's doing a live Q&A on Deadspin right now. Love this one...

So you didn't quite fit into the culture at the New York Times. How excited are you to work alongside Colin Cowherd and Rick Reilly?

site is live - http://fivethirtyeight.com/

... why can't they just have one unified RSS feed

The place really looks great compared to how bad grantland looked at launch

The books in my office — I have about 500 — are arranged by color. It’s quite aesthetically pleasing. It’s not all that convenient, however, when I have to track down a book. I have to remember its color, or I have to scan through every row and column of the shelf. The color-coding system is perhaps a little better as an organizational method than shelving the books at random, but not a lot better. Still, with 500 books, it’s a manageable problem. In the worst case, I might spend a few minutes looking for a book. I’m willing to make that trade in exchange for having a prettier bookshelf.

http://espnfivethirtyeight.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/natebookcase.jpeg?w=610

why would you do this

It does look kinda cool tbh

I hope at the very least it's alphabetized within color, jesus christ

If you're doing this for visual effect (and why else would you do it) what possible sense can there be in wrapping around from the end of one shelf to the beginning of the next shelf? See the yellow books in the picture. They are not even visually contiguous.

I used to arrange my CDs (jewel boxes) like this. It made it surprisingly easy to find them.

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http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-it-costs-to-live-in-broad-city/

this site is so bad

i don't think i've looked at it since the week it launched?

these guys need to put up some election tracking graphs already and make it front and center

pretty sure it would bring in more pageviews than their impression of slate

this guy, jeez

It's no prob because I'm glad it's getting more visibility but you're kind of stealing this take from me.https://t.co/mqMzD84Onh

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) August 5, 2021

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Dumb, but Clara Jeffrey is an idiot as well, and two can play at that game

We are living through a mass trauma event, arguably the most far-reaching in human history, so cut yourself and everybody else some slack.

— Clara Jeffery (@ClaraJeffery) November 23, 2021

looool

literally her pinned tweet rn, not like I went digging for it

the worst person you know, etc

"suppose you think"

do you think this, Nate?

I swear to god, even if the hypotheticals were good, this style of dropping "just thinking bout things" tweets to drive engagement are a plague. Too heavy to address in a twitter response, too fucking dumb to write a thinkpiece with that as the premise

what's the difference between "making people wear masks and vaccinate is literally the holocaust" and what he's doing? oh he's just asking hypothetically, what if a guy thought this

"during hour 55 of a $20k buy-in poker tourney recently, i found myself reflecting on the suffering of america's children..."

fired from his own website lol

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/nate-silver-leaves-538-abc-news-disney-layoffs-1235401689/

this guy is turning into a case study

https://i.imgur.com/Ao8F2pn.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/lxZQnCm.jpg

i mean 'capitalism is perfect because of social darwinism' is an incredible take

Ah yes, capitalism, which has famously existed for thousands of years

OK but the bump of this thread has made me go "wha?" At the poll results.

Like, that is... what? An 8-way tie for first place and a 42-way tie for last place? With nothing in between?

that's the sort of thing that happens when only eight people vote

I fuckin knew you guys weren't bumping this to talk about nate silver's 'most livable neighborhood in nyc' ranking

as i have resided in carroll gardens for 17 years and not died, i pronounce it 'livable'

Just thinking about this poll though, by this division of neighborhoods one could reside at, say, the corner of Bergen St. and Court St. and be at the nexus of Carroll Gardens/Gowanus and Cobble Hill/Boerum Hill, meaning you would be at the intersection of two top 10 neighborhoods that are really four neighborhoods and you'd be a major VIP.

THIS IS NOT REAL 😱@NateSilver538

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haha wrecked