Nate Silver (2013 event)

Statistician, political forecaster and creator of the New York
Times blog FiveThirtyEight, Nate Silver shot to world fame when
he predicted the outcome of all 50 states in the 2012 US
Elections. In his award-winning book, The Signal and the Noise,
Silver highlights how mathematical probability and statistics can
build models to predict the outcome of baseball matches, poker
games, climate change and financial crashes. He appeared at the
2013 Edinburgh International Book Festival, in conversation with
Steven Gale, to talk about his roller coaster year, data analysis
and why, as a scientist, it is wise to stay out of the street
fighting of American politics.