Nate Silver retorna a ESPN

The New York Times is reporting that Nate Silver is leaving The Times to join ESPN.

Silver, 35, is the statistician who gained notoriety for devising algorithms which accurately predicted the 2008 and 2012 presidential races. Silver is taking his FiveThirtyEight franchise to ESPN, where he will have a prominent role on the new Keith Olbermann show and he will also appear on ABC News during election cycles, according to Brian Stelter at the New York Times.

The Times brought in Silver and FiveThirtyEight in August 2010, but that contract is expiring, allowing ESPN to pick up the franchise and giving Silver an on-air platform in addition to his popular blog.

Silver's blog was a big traffic driver for The Times. New Republic reported in November that just before the 2012 presidential election FiveThirtyEight accounted for about 20% of the overall visits to the New York Times website.

Silver made his mark as a baseball statistician before joining The Times.

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