Nate Silver is fascinating. I found myself in the last 3-4 months spending at least an hour every day reading what he does with data, with statistics. I am not the only one: His site http://fivethirtyeight.com/contributors/nate-silver/ is now ranked 510 by Alexa (Alexa is not a sure thing, but it gives an idea: cnn for example is ranked 83, ny times is ranked 108 - the lower the better - 108 means that the ny times's website is the 108th on the internet).