Nate Silver is a statistician, writer, and Editor-in-Chief of FiveThirtyEight.com. After correctly naming the outcome of the 2008 U.S. Presidential election in 49 of 50 states, Silver was listed among TIME’s most influential people in America in 2009. Not to be outdone by anyone but himself, Silver then predicted the 2012 U.S. Presidential election perfectly. As Reddit user kaiosama mused, Nate Silver deserves to be upgraded to…Nate Golden.

Following these successes, ESPN acquired ownership of Silver’s FiveThirtyEight website that he had created and overseen since March of 2008. Promising to empower and expand the scope of ‘data journalism’, Silver has grown FiveThirtyEight to 25 full-time staff members that contribute daily in-depth analysis of politics, sports, economics, and science through a regular array of articles, features, podcasts, and original documentaries.

On August 5th, Reddit had the chance to sit down with Nate Silver and conduct an AMA in the DataIsBeautiful community. Redditors asked Nate about everything from his favorite statistical anomaly to Donald Trump’s and Bernie Sanders’ 2016 candidacies.

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