Nate Silver is a leading statistician and best-selling author known for his unique brand of journalism and statistical analysis. He is the founder of FiveThirtyEight, a website providing data-driven coverage of politics, sports, economics, and science, among other topics. His most recent book, The Signal and The Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail – But Some Don’t, is a New York Times bestseller. Before coming to politics, Silver was an analyst of baseball statistics and developed a widely acclaimed system for predicting player performance, career development, and seasonal winners and losers. He has co-authored several books on baseball statistics, including Mind Game, Baseball Between the Numbers, and It Ain’t Over ’til It’s Over.
Micah Cohen is Managing Editor for FiveThirtyEight. In this role he oversees day-to-day editorial coverage and manages FiveThirtyEight’s team of editors, reporters and visual and computational journalists. Cohen has been an integral part of FiveThirtyEight since 2010, writing alongside Editor-in-Chief Nate Silver through the 2012 election and as the site’s politics editor, overseeing and coordinating coverage of the 2014 and 2016 elections and the Trump administration. Prior to FiveThirtyEight, he was a reporter and editor at The New York Times.
Galen Druke is the host and producer of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast. He has also reported audio documentaries at FiveThirtyEight, including the monthslong series “The Gerrymandering Project.” His work has been heard on NPR, WNYC, On The Media, CBC, Wisconsin Public Radio and the University of Cambridge’s ELECTION podcast.
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