Nate Silver Comes Full Circle With Sports Data Journalism Mecca

Screen Shot 2015-08-06 at 11.41.56 AMNate Silver, best known as the founder of FiveThirtyEight, is recognized as a statistical mastermind and the leader in the field of data journalism. Silver originally used his statistical genius for baseball, but eventually thrust himself into the political realm. Now, Silver runs FiveThirtyEight, which has expanded into a major resource for sports analytics.

Initially, Silver worked with KPMG as an economic consultant. Discontent with his work, Silver pursued a side project that combined two of his interests––statistics and baseball. After continuous effort, this side project evolved into PECOTA (Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test…