Nate Silver

Nate Silver

Statistician

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Nate Silver is a statistician, author, political analyst and founder of FiveThirtyEight.com, who specializes in analyzing elections and sports.

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5mins
“If you ask a computer, it will say, most of the time you want to either be raising or folding, right? You want to take an aggressive action or quit. I think this is a great metaphor for lots of things in real life, too.”