The data journalism site founded by Nate Silver and sold to Disney in 2013 ... the 538 founder got his start in data-driven ...

Less than two years ago, Nate Silver, the site’s founder and editor ... attention to the work of finding answers in numbers. In March of 2008, Silver, a KPMG consultant turned baseball analyst, ...

FiveThirtyEight — named, of course, after the number of electors in the U.S. electoral college — has its roots in the “Community” section of the liberal news site Daily Kos, where, in 2007, a ...

FiveThirtyEight, the political analysis site created by stats guru Nate Silver, is shutting down, according to a report. Sources told the Wall Street Journal that some 200 staff layoffs are ...