Introduction
This is an Election Year and polling scene around the elections (both General Presidential and House/Senate) is heating up. This will become more and more exciting in the coming days, with tweets, counter-tweets, social media fights, and endless punditry on the television.
We know that not all polls are of the same quality. So, how to make sense of it all? How to identify trustworthy pollsters using data and analytics?
In the world of political (and some other matters like sports, social phenomena, economics, etc.) predictive analysis, Five-Thirty-Eight is a formidable name.
Since early 2008, the site has published articles — typically creating or analyzing statistical information — on a wide variety of topics in current politics and political news. The website, run by the rockstar data scientist and statistician Nate Silver, achieved particular prominence and widespread fame around the 2012 Presidential election when its model correctly predicted the winner of all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

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