Nate Silver is the creator of the website FiveThirtyEight, which is a data journalism organization that focuses on opinion poll analysis, politics, economics, and sports blogging. Silver is an American statistician and writer who gained recognition for correctly predicting the outcomes of the 2008 and 2012 U.S. presidential elections. He is also the author of The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don't.