Silver is an American statistician, writer, who analyzes baseball (players, teams ), basketball, and elections.

Around 2003 he created a program to analyze a baseball player's potential career, around 2008 he started forecasting political elections at FiveThirtyEight.com. or 538 which he sold. In 2023 he created his own SilverBulletin blog to analyze political elections.

His recent election forecasting systems predicted the outcome of the 2012 and 2020 presidential elections with a high degree of accuracy. In 2016, his polls-only model gave Donald Trump, the ultimate winer, only a 28% chance of victory, although this was higher than any other forecasting competitors.

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Nate Silver | Wikipedia