UChicago Alum Nate Silver Has the Media Buzzing

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<p>If you’ve watched or read any of the election coverage, then you know that UChicago Alum Nate Silver is all over the media.</p>

<p>[Nate</a> Silver-Led Statistics Men Crush Pundits in Election - Businessweek](<a href=“Bloomberg - Are you a robot?”>Bloomberg - Are you a robot?)</p>

<p>[Nate</a> Silver’s book sales skyrocket - POLITICO.com](<a href=“http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/11/nate-silvers-book-sales-skyrocket-148893.html]Nate”>Nate Silver's book sales skyrocket - POLITICO)</p>

<p>[Nate</a> Silver and The New York Times: The Origin Story - Megan Garber - The Atlantic](<a href=“Nate Silver and The New York Times: The Origin Story - The Atlantic”>Nate Silver and The New York Times: The Origin Story - The Atlantic)</p>

<p>[Nate</a> Silver Takes A Victory Lap After Obama Re-election](<a href=“HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost”>Nate Silver Takes A Victory Lap After Obama Re-election | HuffPost Latest News)</p>

<p>[With</a> sterling call, Nate Silver defines new wave in U.S. polling | Reuters](<a href=“http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/07/usa-campaign-natesilver-idUSL1E8M7IWY20121107]With”>http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/07/usa-campaign-natesilver-idUSL1E8M7IWY20121107)</p>

<p>[Election</a> 2012: Has Nate Silver destroyed punditry? - CSMonitor.com](<a href=“http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/Decoder-Wire/2012/1107/Election-2012-Has-Nate-Silver-destroyed-punditry]Election”>Election 2012: Has Nate Silver destroyed punditry? - CSMonitor.com)</p>

<p>[Election</a> Forecasts - FiveThirtyEight Blog - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/]Election”>http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/)</p>

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<p>Did any of you hear him speak in Chicago today?</p>

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<p>he was a UChicago alum, huh? Cool.
Immense respect for his work.</p>

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<p>Unlike, say, Tucker Max, or the guy from TMZ, Silver’s alumni status is not some kind of coincidence. It’s a little much to call him a typical University of Chicago student – not all of them have such stunning achievements in their first decade after graduation – but in many ways he sure looks like a type of student more common found at the University of Chicago, and in greater numbers, than anyplace else: an intellectually curious, math oriented nerd who cares deeply about methodology and ideas, follows data and logic more than ideology, can obsess equally about baseball and politics, writes beautifully, and is a little socially awkward in person.</p>