Nate Silver
Nate Silver is a statistician, forecaster, entrepreneur, and journalist. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Five ThirtyEight and a special correspondent for ABC News.
The Signal and the Noise made it to the The New York Times best seller list for nonfiction, and was named by Amazon.com as the No. 1 best nonfiction book of 2012.
The Signal and the Noise won the 2013 Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science.
The book has been translated into eleven languages: Chinese (separate editions in traditional and simplified characters), Czech, Finnish, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, and Spanish.
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