"When quants tell stories," or why Nate Silver didn't win the day with awesome math alone

Felix Salmon at Reuters: "If you think that the value of Nate Silver is in the model, you're missing the most important part: there are lots of people with models, and most of those models are pretty similar to each other. The thing which sets Silver apart from the rest is that he can write: he can take a model and turn it into a narrative, walking his readers through to his conclusions."