Sondermann Presidential Symposium: Nate Silver

Lecture: Sondermann Presidential Symposium: Nate Silver — Nate Silver will lecture on the political outlook. Silver originally gained his reputation as a baseball statistical analyst, where his mathematical models have been accurately forecasting baseball outcomes for years. He has received wide acclaim for his PECOTA (Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm) system for predicting player performance, career development, and seasonal winners and losers. Silver's award-winning political… Show more website is FiveThirtyEight.com. The name comes from the total number of votes in the electoral college. On the website, he crunches data, statistical studies, polls, election results, demographics and voting patterns to publish a running forecast of a wide variety of current events, including the U.K. elections, the U.S. midterm elections, health care passage, immigration issues and more.

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