Nate Silver
Statistician and political analyst
Nate Silver is an American statistician and writer who founded FiveThirtyEight and is known for election forecasting. He wrote The Signal and the Noise and On the Edge.
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American Born 1978 in East Lansing, United States
About Nate Silver
Nate Silver, born in 1978, is an American statistician, political analyst and author. He is also a sports gambler and poker player. He first gained attention for developing PECOTA, a system for forecasting the performance of Major League Baseball players. In 2008 his election model picked the winner in 49 of 50 states in the US presidential race, and Time named him one of the world's 100 most influential people in 2009. He founded FiveThirtyEight, where he later served as editor-in-chief. The Signal and the Noise appeared in September 2012, reached the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list and won the 2013 Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science. He has also written On the Edge. Since leaving FiveThirtyEight, he has published the newsletter Silver Bulletin and works as an advisor to Polymarket.