Nate Silver

Statistician & Data Journalist

Silver Bulletin

Statistician and writer. Founder and former editor-in-chief of FiveThirtyEight. Known for election forecasting and statistical analysis. Author of "The Signal and the Noise". Applies statistical methods to politics, sports, and other domains. Pioneer in data journalism and probabilistic thinking.

Expertise

statisticsforecastingdata journalismpoliticsprobabilitybaseball analyticselections

Podcast appearances

Nate Silver Predicts a ‘Momentous’ Midterm
The Ezra Klein Show · Oct 27, 2026
Nate Silver on Kamala Harris’s Chances and the Mistakes of the ‘Indigo Blob’
The Ezra Klein Show · Aug 13, 2024