By Jim Fields, Vice President, Customer Experience Marketing, SAP
Last fall my teenage daughter fell in love with a thirty-something data geek. She constantly checked her smartphone for updates from him, gushing when the news was good and panicking when the trend line pointed down.
Did this obsession worry me? Not for a second, since the data geek was none other than Nate Silver, editor in chief of the FiveThirtyEight.com blog and author of the recent best-selling book, The Signal and the....