Nate Silver came from the fantastic world of the statistical analysis of baseball, specifically Baseball Prospectus. You can check out his body of work here (s

Nate Silver came from the fantastic world of the statistical analysis of baseball, specifically Baseball Prospectus. You can check out his body of work here (some articles require a subscription): http://www.baseballprospectus.com/author/nate_silver/ http://www.baseballprospectus.com/author/nate_silver/ His big contribution was a model used to predict player statistics. When he first started writing about politics, I assumed the name was a coincidence.