Nate Silver
Jul 31, 2024•2 hr 24 min•Ep. 73
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Episode description
Nate Silver is a statistician, poker player, and political forecaster. Silver transformed his affinity for mathematics as a child into analyzing and predicting sports and elections alike. In 2008, Silver founded FiveThirtyEight, a polling aggregation website and blog. Soon after, he was named as one of the world’s 100 most influential people by Time Magazine, recognized for the remarkable accuracy of his election forecasting system. Delving into the world of probability, statistics, and ultimately seeking truth from data, Silver is the best-selling author of The Signal and the Noise and On The Edge.
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