Nate Silver
Also known as Nathaniel Read Silver
Statistician and election forecaster; founder of FiveThirtyEight, writes Silver Bulletin.
At a glance
Roles
The New York Times (before)
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- Nate Silver is an American statistician, election forecaster and poker player.
- He started FiveThirtyEight in March 2008 and ran it at The New York Times, ESPN and ABC News until he left in May 2023.
- Before that he built the PECOTA baseball forecasting system at Baseball Prospectus.
- He now writes the Silver Bulletin newsletter; his books are The Signal and the Noise (2012) and On the Edge (2024).
Key facts
- Born
- 13 January 1978, East Lansing, Michigan1
- Education
- BA in economics, University of Chicago (2000)1
- Early career
- Transfer-pricing consultant at KPMG from 2000 to April 2004; Baseball Prospectus from 2003, where he built PECOTA, stepping down as managing partner in March 20091
- FiveThirtyEight
- Started on 7 March 2008; licensed to The New York Times from August 2010 for three years; bought by ESPN in July 2013 and moved to ABC News in 2018; he left in May 20231
- After 538
- Silver Bulletin newsletter; adviser to Polymarket from June 20241
- Books
- The Signal and the Noise (2012); On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything (2024)1
- Recognition
- Time's 100 most influential people (2009)1
Roles
Before
Part of until Jul 2013
The New York Times (FiveThirtyEight ran on NYTimes.com under a three-year licence until ESPN bought it; he was not on the paper's staff) source on The New York Times
Links
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