Nate Silver

Nathaniel Read "Nate" Silver is an American statistician and writer known for his accurate election predictions and baseball analytics.

He gained recognition for developing PECOTA, a baseball player performance forecasting system, and later for his political blog FiveThirtyEight.

Silver's accurate predictions in the 2008 and 2012 U.S. presidential elections garnered widespread attention.

He has been named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People and has won multiple awards for his work.

Silver's book, The Signal and the Noise, became a bestseller and won the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science.

He currently serves as editor-in-chief of FiveThirtyEight under ESPN, focusing on data journalism across various subjects.