After graduating with an economics degree from the University of Chicago, Silver took a job with the global accounting firm KPMG. If you play fantasy baseball, then there’s a high chance you knew about Nate Silver long before everyone else. Silver now brings FiveThirtyEight’s innovative, data-driven approach to not just politics, but also sports (coming full circle from where he started), culture, science, and economics.
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“Much like the Brad Pitt character in the movie Moneyball disrupted the old model of how to scout baseball players, Nate disrupted the traditional model of how to cover politics,” as Margaret Sullivan wrote in 2013 when she was public editor of The New York Times.
Many have heralded Silver as disruptive to traditional political reporting. And in 2012, he got all the states right.
He quickly became a household name after his algorithms correctly predicted that year’s presidential election outcome in 49 of 50 states. Silver started his statistics-driven FiveThirtyEight blog in 2008 as a way to “lend some sanity to the media narrative about polls,” he told CNET. If you’re a fan of politics, baseball or innovative journalism, then you’ll be delighted to know that Nate Silver-statistician, writer, and founder of FiveThirtyEight-is one of the keynote speakers at next month’s Domopalooza.
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