caption website birth_place nationality title article_title birth_date known_for residence birthname image employer education occupation alma_mater
silver at south by southwest , 2009 -lsb- http://fivethirtyeight.com/ fivethirtyeight.com -rsb- east lansing , michigan american editor in chief , fivethirtyeight nate silver
 13 january 1978 pecota , fivethirtyeight manhattan , new york city nathaniel read silver nate silver 2009.png espn a.b. , economics -lrb- 2000 -rrb- statistician , journalist university of chicago
nate silver

nathaniel read `` nate '' silver -lrb- born january 13 , 1978 -rrb- is an american statistician and writer who analyzes baseball -lrb- see sabermetrics -rrb- and elections -lrb- see psephology -rrb- .
he is currently the editor-in-chief of espn 's `` fivethirtyeight '' blog and a special correspondent for abc news .
silver first gained public recognition for developing pecota , a system for forecasting the performance and career development of major league baseball players , which he sold to and then managed for baseball prospectus from 2003 to 2009 .
in 2007 , writing under the pseudonym `` poblano '' , silver began to publish analyses and predictions related to the 2008 united states presidential election .
at first this work appeared on the political blog daily kos , but in march 2008 silver established his own website , `` fivethirtyeight.com . ''
by summer of that year , after he revealed his identity to his readers , he began to appear as an electoral and political analyst in national print , online , and cable news media .
the accuracy of his november 2008 presidential election predictions -- he correctly predicted the winner of 49 of the 50 states -- won silver further attention and commendation .
the only state he missed was indiana , which went for barack obama by one percentage point .
he correctly predicted the winner of all 35 u.s. senate races that year .
in april 2009 , he was named one of the world 's 100 most influential people by `` time '' .
in 2010 , silver 's `` fivethirtyeight '' blog was licensed for publication by `` the new york times '' .
the newly renamed blog , `` fivethirtyeight : nate silver 's political calculus , '' first appeared in `` the times '' on august 25 , 2010 .
in 2012 and 2013 , `` fivethirtyeight '' won webby awards as the `` best political blog '' from the international academy of digital arts and sciences .
silver 's book , `` the signal and the noise '' , was published in september 2012 .
it subsequently reached `` the new york times '' best seller list for nonfiction , and was named by amazon.com as the # 1 best nonfiction book of 2012 .
`` the signal and the noise '' won the 2013 phi beta kappa award in science .
the book has been published as well in nine foreign languages : chinese -lrb- separate editions in traditional and simplified characters -rrb- , czech , german , italian , polish , portuguese , spanish , and romanian .
in the 2012 united states presidential election between barack obama and mitt romney , he correctly predicted the winner of all 50 states and the district of columbia .
that same year , silver 's predictions of u.s. senate races were correct in 31 of 33 states ; he predicted republican victory in north dakota and montana , where democrats won .
in july 2013 , it was revealed that silver and his `` fivethirtyeight '' blog would depart `` the new york times '' and join espn .
in his new role at espn , silver would become editor-in-chief of the fivethirtyeight site .
espn would own the fivethirtyeight site and the brand .
the espn-owned `` fivethirtyeight '' launched on march 17 , 2014 .
silver 's lead article explained that the site would focus on a broad range of subjects under the general rubric of `` data journalism '' .
having earned a bachelor 's degree from the university of chicago in 2000 , he has since been awarded four honorary doctoral degrees : from ripon college -lrb- 2013 -rrb- , the new school -lrb- 2013 -rrb- , the university of leuven -lrb- 2013 -rrb- , and amherst college -lrb- 2014 -rrb- .
