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Books by Nate Silver

Nate Silver is a statistician and writer best known for founding FiveThirtyEight, a data journalism website focused on elections, sports, and economics. He first gained wide attention by correctly forecasting 49 of 50 states in the 2008 U.S. presidential election using a statistical model. Silver's background is in sabermetrics — the application of statistical analysis to baseball — which he developed into the PECOTA forecasting system before turning to political prediction. He is a leading advocate for probabilistic communication in journalism and public affairs.