A Conversation with Nate Silver
Channel: MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Date: 02/03/2016

The statistician and political polling analyst Nate Silver discusses his career -- from student journalist to baseball prognosticator to the creator of FiveThirtyEight.com, perhaps the most influential political blog in the world -- and the ways in which statistics are changing the face of journalism in a conversation with Seth Mnookin, a former baseball and political writer who co-directs MIT's Graduate Program in Science Writing.