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NameNate Silver
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InfoNate Silver has become 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 primaries and the presidential winner in 49 states. Today, Nate runs the award-winning political website FiveThirtyEight.com, where he publishes a running forecast of current elections and hot-button issues. Now published in the New York Times, FiveThirtyEight.com has made Nate the public face of statistical analysis and political forecasting.

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The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't  Purchase Homegrown Democrat 

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Feb 19, 2018 06:00pm Statement Nate Silver statement on Presidential Ranking  Article ScottĀ³ 
Jul 19, 2013 07:05pm Announcement Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight Blog Is to Join ESPN Staff  Article Homegrown Democrat 

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D:6086Jason (11889.0225 points)
Fri, November 13, 2020 02:38:25 PM UTC0:00
Truth is, there's only so much you can do by just aggregating polls (which the "model" fundamentally becomes in the end). I'm some random dude shooting the sh*t on the internet and did a better job of predicting this year's election results than 538's much-vaunted model.

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