The Midterms: What Went Down with Nate Silver & the FiveThirtyEight Team

Name: The Midterms: What Went Down with Nate Silver & the FiveThirtyEight Team
Start: 11/9/2018 7:00:00 PM
End: 11/9/2018 8:30:00 PM
Location: 92nd Street Y

Nate Silver, Clare Malone, Jody Avirgan, and Micah Cohen

Influential statistician and polling analyst Nate Silver brings the politics team from his award-winning website FiveThirtyEight to 92Y to take a riveting deep-dive into the midterm elections.

In a broad-ranging conversation they’ll look at the outcome as well as the ways in which statistics are changing the face of journalism and the role media plays in democracy.

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Nate Silver

Nate Silver is a leading statistician and bestselling author known for his unique brand of creativity, journalism, and statistical analysis …

Nate Silver

Nate Silver is a leading statistician and bestselling author known for his unique brand of creativity, journalism, and statistical analysis. He is the founder of the award-winning website FiveThirtyEight, which was acquired by ABC News in 2018 from ESPN. While under ESPN’s ownership, the site relaunched to expand its coverage to include topics such as sports, economics, culture, science and technology, among others. FiveThirtyEight continues to provide data-driven coverage of politics, including forecasts of upcoming elections.

Silver has established himself as today’s leading statistician through his innovative analyses of political polling. He first gained national attention during the 2008 presidential election, when he correctly predicted the results of the presidential election in 49 of 50 states, along with all 35 U.S. Senate races. In 2012, FiveThirtyEight predicted the election outcome in all 50 states. FiveThirtyEight has made Nate the public face of statistical analysis and political forecasting.

His most recent book, The Signal and The Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail – But Some Don’t, is a New York Times bestseller. Before he came to politics, Nate established his credentials as an analyst of baseball statistics. He developed a widely acclaimed system called PECOTA (Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm), which predicts player performance, career development, and seasonal winners and losers. He is a co-author of a series of books on baseball statistics, which include Mind Game, Baseball Between the Numbers, and It Ain’t Over ’til It’s Over. Nate has written for ESPN.com, Sports Illustrated, Slate, Baseball Prospectus, Newsweek, The New York Post, and The Los Angeles Times.

Silver has earned a series of accolades. Fast Company chose Nate as No. 1 on their list of the 100 Most Creative People in Business 2013. He was among TIME’s 100 Most Influential People of 2009 and Rolling Stone’s 100 Agents of Change. In 2012 and 2013, FiveThirtyEight won Webby Awards as the “Best Political Blog” and in 2016, won “Data Journalism Website of the Year” from the Global Editors Network.