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Nate doesn't need much of an introduction.

He is a phenomenon in the areas of data, sports, politics, online media.

All the growth sectors, basically.

So when I think of your work, I think of you as dedicated to the idea of numbers and data

and wanting to apply that to as many different areas as possible.

If you were to say of all the areas of human life, where can data bring the biggest improvements?

What would your answer be?

That's a pretty heavy question for, I should have taken half an hour to think of

that.

Look, I think the answers are probably obvious in some sense, where health is an area where

I've not done a lot of work personally, but I'm sure it's incredibly valuable.

Doctors are not known for being terribly analytic-driven.

I don't know the culture enough as to know why.

In terms of areas that we're, that I would like us to focus on at 538, a little bit more

than we do now, criminality and criminal justice is an interesting area, in part because you

have lots of issues with data.

Where if you want to know how many police officers are killed, how many people are killed by police

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