Nate Silver

Updated: 12/01/2019 by Computer Hope
Nate Silver

Name: Nate Silver

Born: January 13, 1978, in East Lansing, Michigan

Computer-related contributions

  • American statistician, sabermetrician, psephologist, and writer of FiveThirtyEight blog.
  • First gained public recognition for developing PECOTA, a system for forecasting the performance and career development of Major League Baseball players. He sold PECOTA to Baseball Prospectus, and then managed it for them from 2003 to 2009.
  • The accuracy of his November 2008 presidential election predictions — he correctly predicted the winner of 49 of the 50 states. In the 2012 Presidential election, Silver correctly predicted the winner of all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
  • In 2010, Silver's FiveThirtyEight blog was licensed for publication by The New York Times.

Significant publications

  • The Signal and the Noise (2012).

Honors and awards

  • FiveThirtyEight won a Webby Award as the "Best Political Blog" (2012).
  • Named one of The World's 100 Most Influential People by Time (2009).
  • FiveThirtyEight became the first blog ever selected as a Notable Narrative by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University (2008).

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