Nate Silver Creation and motivation
What did Nate create ?
What did Nate Silver create?
On November 1, 2007, while still employed by Baseball Prospectus, Silver began publishing a diary under the pseudonym "Poblano" on the progressive political blog Daily Kos. Silver set out to analyze quantitative aspects of the political game to enlighten a broader audience. Silver reports that "he was stranded in a New Orleans airport when the idea of FiveThirtyEight.com came to him. 'I was just frustrated with the analysis. ... I saw a lot of discussion about strategy that was not all that sophisticated, especially when it came to quantitative things like polls and demographics'". His forecasts of the 2008 United States presidential primary elections drew a lot of attention, including being cited by The New York Times Op-Ed columnist William Kristol.  On March 7, 2008, while still writing as "Poblano," Silver established his own blog, FiveThirtyEight.com. Often colloquially referred to as just 538, the website takes its name from the number of electors in the United States electoral college.  On May 30, 2008, Poblano revealed his identity to FiveThirtyEight.com readers. On June 1, 2008, Silver published a two-page Op-Ed article in the New York Post outlining the rationale underlying his focus on the statistical aspects of politics. He first appeared on national television on CNN's American Morning on June 13, 2008.  Silver described his partisan orientation as follows in the FAQ on his website: "My state [Illinois] has non-partisan registration, so I am not registered as anything. I vote for Democratic candidates the majority of the time (though by no means always). This year, I have been a supporter of Barack Obama". With respect to the impartiality of his electoral projections, Silver stated, "Are [my] results biased toward [my] preferred candidates? I hope not, but that is for you to decide. I have tried to disclose as much about my methodology as possible". CANNOTANSWER
On November 1, 2007, while still employed by Baseball Prospectus, Silver began publishing a diary under the pseudonym "Poblano" on the progressive political blog Daily Kos.
Nathaniel Read Silver (born January 13, 1978) is an American statistician, writer and poker player who analyzes baseball (see sabermetrics), basketball, and elections (see psephology). He is the founder and editor-in-chief of FiveThirtyEight and a Special Correspondent for ABC News.

Silver first gained public recognition for developing PECOTA, a system for forecasting the performance and career development of Major League Baseball players, which he sold to and then managed for Baseball Prospectus from 2003 to 2009.

Silver was named one of The World's 100 Most Influential People by Time in 2009 after an election forecasting system he developed successfully predicted the outcomes in 49 of the 50 states in the 2008 U.S. Presidential election. In the 2012 United States presidential election, the forecasting system correctly predicted the winner of all 50 states and the District of Columbia. FiveThirtyEight, like many  outlets, said Donald Trump had a lower probability of victory in the 2016 presidential election than Hillary Clinton. However, the 28% chance of victory they gave Trump going into election day was significantly higher than that of most other analysts, and FiveThirtyEight discussed a Trump win as a distinct possibility, while most media treated it as a remote, if not near-impossible, outcome. In 2020, FiveThirtyEight correctly predicted Joe Biden's victory in the election, forecasting 48 out of 50 states correctly. However, while FiveThirtyEight viewed the actual results as a plausible scenario, it significantly overestimated Biden's margins in battleground states such as Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.

In 2010, the FiveThirtyEight blog was licensed for publication by The New York Times. In 2012 and 2013, FiveThirtyEight won Webby Awards as the "Best Political Blog" from the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.

In July 2013, Silver sold FiveThirtyEight to ESPN, and Silver became its Editor in Chief. The ESPN-owned FiveThirtyEight launched on March 17, 2014. The site focused on a broad range of subjects under the rubric of "data journalism".

Silver's book, The Signal and the Noise, was published in September 2012. It subsequently reached 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.

Early life
Silver was born in East Lansing, Michigan, the son of Sally (née Thrun), a community activist, and Brian David Silver, a former chair of the political science department at Michigan State University. Silver's mother's family, of English and German descent, includes several distinguished men and women, including his maternal great-grandfather, Harmon Lewis, who was president of the Alcoa Steamship Company, Inc. Silver's father's family includes two uncles -- Leon Silver and Caswell Silver—who were distinguished geologists. Silver has described himself as "half-Jewish".

Silver showed a proficiency in math from a young age. According to journalist William Hageman, "Silver caught the baseball bug when he was 6.... It was 1984, the year the Detroit Tigers won the World Series. The Tigers became his team and baseball his sport. And if there's anything that goes hand in glove with baseball, it's numbers, another of Silver's childhood interests ("It's always more interesting to apply it to batting averages than algebra class")".

As a student at East Lansing High School, in 1996 Silver won first place in the State of Michigan in the 49th annual John S. Knight Scholarship Contest for senior high school debaters.

Silver first showed his journalism skills as a writer and opinion page editor for The Portrait, East Lansing High School's student newspaper, from 1993–1996.

In 2000, Silver graduated with Honors with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from the University of Chicago. He also wrote for the Chicago Weekly News and the Chicago Maroon. He spent his third year at the London School of Economics.

Career

Economic consultant: 2000–2004
After college graduation in 2000, Silver worked for three and a half years as a transfer pricing consultant with KPMG in Chicago. When asked in 2009, "What is your biggest regret in life?" Silver responded, "Spending four years of my life at a job I didn't like". While employed at KPMG, Silver continued to nurture his lifelong interest in baseball and statistics, and on the side he began to work on his PECOTA system for projecting player performance and careers. He quit his job at KPMG in April 2004 and for a time earned his living mainly by playing online poker. According to Sports Illustrated writer Alexander Wolff, over a three-year period Silver earned $400,000 from online poker.

Baseball analyst: 2003–2008
In 2003, Silver became a writer for Baseball Prospectus (BP), after having sold PECOTA to BP in return for a partnership interest. After resigning from KPMG in 2004, he took the position of Executive Vice-President, later renamed Managing Partner of BP. Silver further developed PECOTA and wrote a weekly column under the heading "Lies, Damned Lies". He applied sabermetric techniques to a broad range of topics including forecasting the performance of individual players, the economics of baseball, metrics for the valuation of players, and developing an Elo rating system for Major League baseball.

Between 2003 and 2009, Silver co-authored the Baseball Prospectus annual book of Major League Baseball forecasts, as well as other books, including Mind Game: How the Boston Red Sox Got Smart, Won a World Series, and Created a New Blueprint for Winning, Baseball Between the Numbers, and It Ain't Over 'til It's Over: The Baseball Prospectus Pennant Race Book.

He contributed articles about baseball to ESPN.com, Sports Illustrated, Slate, the New York Sun, and The New York Times.

Silver has authored more than 200 articles for Baseball Prospectus.

PECOTA

PECOTA (Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm) is a statistical system that projects the future performance of hitters and pitchers. It is designed primarily for two users: fans interested in fantasy baseball, and professionals in the baseball business trying to predict the performance and valuation of major league players. Unlike most other baseball projection systems, PECOTA relies on matching a given current player to a set of "comparable" players whose past performance can serve as a guide to how the given current player is likely to perform in the future. Unlike most other such systems, PECOTA also calculates a range of probable performance levels rather than a single predicted value on a given measure such as earned run average or batting average.

PECOTA projections were first published by Baseball Prospectus in the 2003 edition of its annual book as well as online by BaseballProspectus.com. Silver produced the PECOTA forecasts for each Major League Baseball season from 2003 through 2009.

Political analyst and blogger: 2008–present

FiveThirtyEight blog

Creation and motivation
On November 1, 2007, while still employed by Baseball Prospectus, Silver began publishing a diary under the pseudonym "Poblano" on the progressive political blog Daily Kos. Silver set out to analyze quantitative aspects of the political game to enlighten a broader audience. Silver reports that "he was stranded in a New Orleans airport when the idea of FiveThirtyEight.com came to him. 'I was just frustrated with the analysis. ... I saw a lot of discussion about strategy that was not all that sophisticated, especially when it came to quantitative things like polls and demographics'". His forecasts of the 2008 United States presidential primary elections drew a lot of attention, including being cited by The New York Times op-ed columnist William Kristol.

On March 7, 2008, while still writing as "Poblano", Silver established his own blog, FiveThirtyEight.com. Often colloquially referred to as just 538, the website takes its name from the number of electors in the United States electoral college.

On May 30, 2008, Poblano revealed his identity to FiveThirtyEight.com readers. On June 1, 2008, Silver published a two-page op-ed in the New York Post outlining the rationale underlying his focus on the statistical aspects of politics. He first appeared on national television on CNN's American Morning on June 13, 2008.

Silver described his partisan orientation as follows in the FAQ on his website: "My state [Illinois] has non-partisan registration, so I am not registered as anything. I vote for Democratic candidates the majority of the time (though by no means always). This year, I have been a supporter of Barack Obama". With respect to the impartiality of his electoral projections, Silver stated, "Are [my] results biased toward [my] preferred candidates? I hope not, but that is for you to decide. I have tried to disclose as much about my methodology as possible".

2008 election and aftermath
Shortly after the November 4 election, ESPN writer Jim Caple observed, "Forget Cole Hamels and the Phillies. No one in baseball had a more impressive fall than Nate Silver....  [R]ight now Silver is exhausted. He barely slept the last couple weeks of the campaign—'By the end, it was full-time plus'—and for that matter, he says he couldn't have kept it up had the campaign lasted two days longer. Plus, he has his Baseball Prospectus duties. 'We write our [Baseball Prospectus 2009] book from now through the first of the year,' [Silver] said. 'I have a week to relax and then it gets just as busy again. In February 2009 I will just have to find an island in the Caribbean and throw my BlackBerry in the ocean'".

Later in November 2008, Silver signed a contract with Penguin Group USA to write two books, reportedly for a $700,000 advance.

Silver was invited to be a speaker at TED 2009 in February 2009, and keynote speaker at the 2009 South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive conference (March 2009).

While maintaining his FiveThirtyEight.com website, in January 2009 Silver began a monthly feature column, "The Data", in Esquire as well as contributed occasional articles to other media such as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.  He also tried his luck in the 2009 World Series of Poker.

The success of his FiveThirtyEight.com blog marked the effective end of Silver's career as baseball analyst, though he continued to devote some attention to sports statistics and sports economics in his blog. In March 2009, he stepped down as Managing Partner of Baseball Prospectus and handed over responsibility for producing future PECOTA projections to other Baseball Prospectus staff members. In April 2009, he appeared as an analyst on ESPN's Baseball Tonight. After March 2009, he published only two "Lies, Damned Lies" columns on BaseballProspectus.com.

In November 2009, ESPN introduced a new Soccer Power Index (SPi), designed by Nate Silver, for predicting the outcome of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. He published a post-mortem after the tournament, comparing his predictions to those of alternative rating systems.

In April 2010, in an assignment for New York magazine, Silver created a quantitative index of "The Most Livable Neighborhoods in New York".

Transition to The New York Times
On June 3, 2010, Silver announced on FiveThirtyEight

In the near future, the blog will "re-launch" under a NYTimes.com domain. It will retain its own identity (akin to other Times blogs like DealBook), but will be organized under the News:Politics section. Once this occurs, content will no longer be posted at FiveThirtyEight.com on an ongoing basis, and the blog will re-direct to the new URL. In addition, I will be contributing content to the print edition of The New York Times, and to the Sunday Magazine. The partnership agreement, which is structured as a license, has a term of three years.

The New York Times "FiveThirtyEight: Nate Silver's Political Calculus" commenced on August 25, 2010, with the publication of "New Forecast Shows Democrats Losing 6 to 7 Senate Seats". From that date the blog focused almost exclusively on forecasting the outcomes of the 2010 U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives elections as well as state gubernatorial contests. Silver's Times Sunday Magazine feature first appeared on November 19, 2010, under the heading "Go Figure". It was later titled "Acts of Mild Subversion".

While blogging for The Times, Silver also worked on his book about prediction, which was published in September 2012. At that time, Silver began to drop hints that after 2012 he would turn his attention to matters other than detailed statistical forecasting of elections. As reported in New York magazine: " 'I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil,' he says. And in four [years], he might be even more macro, as he turns his forecasting talents to other fields. 'I'm 97 percent sure that the FiveThirtyEight model will exist in 2016,' he says, 'but it could be someone else who's running it or licensing it.'"

During the last year of FiveThirtyEights license to The New York Times, it drew a very large volume of online traffic to the paper:

The Times does not release traffic figures, but a spokesperson said yesterday that Silver's blog provided a significant—and significantly growing, over the past year—percentage of Times pageviews. This fall, visits to the Times' political coverage (including FiveThirtyEight) have increased, both absolutely and as a percentage of site visits. But FiveThirtyEight's growth is staggering: where earlier this year, somewhere between 10 and 20 percent of politics visits included a stop at FiveThirtyEight, last week that figure was 71 percent.

But Silver's blog has buoyed more than just the politics coverage, becoming a significant traffic-driver for the site as a whole. Earlier this year, approximately 1 percent of visits to the New York Times included FiveThirtyEight. Last week, that number was 13 percent. Yesterday, it was 20 percent. That is, one in five visitors to the sixth-most-trafficked U.S. news site took a look at Silver's blog.

Departure from The Times

In an online chat session a week after the 2012 election Silver commented: "As tempting as it might be to pull a Jim Brown/Sandy Koufax and just mic-drop/retire from elections forecasting, I expect that we'll be making forecasts in 2014 and 2016. Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately. But the 2016 G.O.P. primary seems almost certain to be epic." In late November 2012, Times executive editor Jill Abramson declared her wish to keep Silver and his blog: "We would love to have Nate continue to be part of the New York Times family, and to expand on what he does", she said. "We know he began in sports anyway, so it is not an exclusively political product. I am excited to talk to Nate when he finishes his book tour about ways to expand that kind of reporting."

On July 22, 2013, ESPN announced that it had acquired ownership of the FiveThirtyEight website and brand, and that "Silver will serve as editor-in-chief of the site and will build a team of journalists, editors, analysts and contributors in the coming months."

The New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan wrote upon Silver's decision to leave for ESPN:

I don't think Nate Silver ever really fit into the Times culture and I think he was aware of that. He was, in a word, disruptive. Much like the Brad Pitt character in the movie "Moneyball" disrupted the old model of how to scout baseball players, Nate disrupted the traditional model of how to cover politics.

She added, "A number of traditional and well-respected Times journalists disliked his work." Later, Sullivan wrote in The Times that "I don't feel so good about not being able to investigate every complaint from every individual reader fully, or about making some misjudgments in individual posts — my Nate Silver commentary, among others, has probably been off-base...".

New York magazine reported that executive editor Jill Abramson "put on a full-court press" to keep Silver at The Times and that "for Abramson, Silver was a tentpole attraction for her favorite subject, national politics, and brought the kind of buzz she thought valuable", but the company's CEO and President Mark Thompson "confirmed that keeping Silver was not at the top of his agenda." The article stated that "the major reason Silver left was because he felt it was Thompson who had not committed to building his franchise. The mixed signals from Thompson and Abramson—his lack of enthusiasm for committing resources to Silver, her desire to keep a major star—frustrated Silver and his lawyer."

FiveThirtyEight under ESPN ownership
When FiveThirtyEight was relaunched under ESPN's ownership on March 17, 2014, Silver outlined the scope of topics that would be covered under the rubric of "data journalism":

FiveThirtyEight's election forecasts

2008 U.S. elections

In March 2008, Silver established his blog FiveThirtyEight.com, in which he developed a system for tracking polls and forecasting the outcome of the 2008 general election. At the same time, he continued making forecasts of the 2008 Democratic primary elections. That several of his forecasts based on demographic analysis proved to be substantially more accurate than those of the professional pollsters gained visibility and professional credibility for "Poblano", the pseudonym that Silver was then using.

After the North Carolina and Indiana primaries on May 6, the popularity of FiveThirtyEight.com surged. Silver recalls the scenario: 'I know the polls show it's really tight in NC, but we think Obama is going to win by thirteen, fourteen points, and he did. ... Any time you make a prediction like that people give you probably too much credit for it.... But after that [Silver's and the website's popularity] started to really take off. It's pretty nonlinear, once you get one mention in the mainstream media, other people [quickly follow suit]'".

As a CNET reporter wrote on election eve, "Even though Silver launched the site as recently as March, its straightforward approach, daring predictions, and short but impressive track record has put it on the map of political sites to follow. The Washington Post featured Silver in its 14th annual election prediction contest this year, and he'll be reporting on Tuesday night's results with Dan Rather on HDNet".

Silver's final 2008 presidential election forecast accurately predicted the winner of 49 of the 50 states as well as the District of Columbia (missing only the prediction for Indiana). As his model predicted, the races in Missouri and North Carolina were particularly close. He also correctly predicted the winners of every U.S. Senate race.  The accuracy of his predictions won him further acclaim, including abroad, and added to his reputation as a leading political prognosticator.

Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign signed off on a proposal to share all of its private polling with Silver. After signing a confidentiality agreement, Silver was granted access to hundreds of polls the campaign had conducted.

2010 U.S. elections

Shortly after FiveThirtyEight relocated to The New York Times, Silver introduced his prediction models for the 2010 elections to the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives, and state governorships. Each of these models relied initially on a combination of electoral history, demographics, and polling. Silver eventually published detailed forecasts and analyses of the results for all three sets of elections. He correctly predicted the winner in 34 of the 37 contested Senate races.  His 2010 congressional mid-term predictions were not as accurate as those made in 2008, but were still within the reported confidence interval. Silver predicted a Republican pickup of 54 seats in the House of Representatives; the GOP won 63 seats. Of the 37 gubernatorial races, FiveThirtyEight correctly predicted the winner of 36.

2012 U.S. elections

Although throughout 2011 Silver devoted a lot of attention on his blog to the 2012 Republican party primaries, his first effort to handicap the 2012 Presidential general election appeared as the cover story in The New York Times Magazine a year prior to the election: "Is Obama Toast? Handicapping the 2012 Election". Accompanying the online release of this article, Silver also published "Choose Obama's Re-Election Adventure", an interactive toy that allowed readers to predict the outcome of the election based on their assumptions about three variables: President Obama's favorability ratings, the rate of GDP growth, and how conservative the Republican opponent would be. This analysis stimulated a lot of critical discussion.

While publishing numerous stories on the Republican primary elections, in mid-February 2012 Silver reprised and updated his previous Magazine story with another one, "What Obama Should Do Next". This story painted a more optimistic picture of President Obama's re-election chances. A companion article on his FiveThirtyEight blog, "The Fundamentals Now Favor Obama", explained how the model and the facts on the ground had changed between November and February.

Silver published the first iteration of his 2012 general election forecasts on June 7, 2012. According to the model, at that time Barack Obama was projected to win 291 electoral votes—21 more than the 270 required for a majority. Obama then had an estimated 61.8% chance of winning a majority.

On the morning of the November 6, 2012, presidential election, the final update of Silver's model at 10:10 A.M. gave President Barack Obama a 90.9% chance of winning a majority of the 538 electoral votes. Both in summary tables and in an electoral map, Silver forecast the winner of each state. At the conclusion of that day, when Mitt Romney had conceded to Barack Obama, Silver's model had correctly predicted the winner of every one of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Silver, along with at least three academic-based analysts—Drew Linzer, Simon Jackman, and Josh Putnam—who also aggregated polls from multiple pollsters—thus was not only broadly correct about the election outcome, but also specifically predicted the outcomes for the nine swing states. In contrast, individual pollsters were less successful. For example, Rasmussen Reports "missed on six of its nine swing-state polls".

2016 U.S. elections 

In the week leading up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the FiveThirtyEight team predicted that Hillary Clinton had a 64.5% chance of winning the election. Their final prediction on November 8, 2016, gave Clinton a 71% chance to win the 2016 United States presidential election, while other major forecasters had predicted Clinton to win with at least an 85% to 99% probability. Donald Trump won the election.  FiveThirtyEight argued it projected a much higher chance (29%) of Donald Trump winning the presidency than other modelers, a projection which was criticized days before the election by Ryan Grim of The Huffington Post as "unskewing" too much in favor of Trump.

Reception
Silver has been criticized for inaccurate predictions. In January 2010, journalist and blogger Colby Cosh criticized Silver's performance during the Massachusetts special Senate election, saying he was "still arguing as late as Thursday afternoon that [Martha] Coakley was the clear favourite; he changed his mind at midnight that evening and acknowledged that Scott Brown had a puncher's chance." (Brown won the election.)

Silver's quantitative focus on polling data, without insight from experience in political organizing or journalism, has been a recurring critique from experienced commentators. Huffington Post columnist Geoffrey Dunn described Silver as someone who "has never organized a precinct in his life, much less walked one, pontificating about the dynamics in the electoral processes as if he actually understood them."

Considerable criticism during the 2012 elections came from political conservatives, who argued that Silver's election projections were politically biased against Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate for president. For example, Silver was accused of applying a double standard to his treatment of Rasmussen Reports polls, such as a 2010 analysis asserting a statistical bias in its methodology. Josh Jordan wrote in National Review that Silver clearly favored Obama and adjusted the weight he gave polls "based on what [he] think[s] of the pollster and the results and not based on what is actually inside the poll".

On MSNBC's Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough stated that Silver's prediction that day of a 73.6% chance of a win for Obama greatly exceeded the confidence of the Obama campaign itself, which Scarborough equated to that of the Romney campaign, both believing "they have a 50.1 percent chance of winning", and calling Silver an "ideologue" and a "joke". Silver responded with the offer of a $1,000 wager (for charity) over the outcome of the election. The New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan, while defending Silver's analysis, characterized the wager as "a bad idea" as it gave the appearance of a partisan motive for Silver, and "inappropriate" for someone perceived as a Times journalist (although Silver was not a member of the newspaper's staff).

After a post-election appearance by Silver on Joe Scarborough's Morning Joe, Scarborough published what he called a "(semi) apology", in which he concluded:

"I won't apologize to Mr. Silver for predicting an outcome that I had also been predicting for a year. But I do need to tell Nate I'm sorry for leaning in too hard and lumping him with pollsters whose methodology is as rigorous as the Simpsons' strip mall physician, Dr. Nick. For those sins (and a multitude of others that I'm sure I don't even know about), I am sorry.

Politics is a messy sport. And just as ball players who drink beer and eat fried chicken in dugouts across America can screw up the smartest sabermetrician's forecast, Nate Silver's formula is sure to let his fervent admirers down from time to time. But judging from what I saw of him this morning, Nate is a grounded guy who admits as much in his book. I was too tough on him and there's a 84.398264% chance I will be less dismissive of his good work in the future."

Silver's nondisclosure of the details of his analytical model has resulted in some skepticism. Washington Post journalist Ezra Klein wrote: "There are good criticisms to make of Silver's model, not the least of which is that, while Silver is almost tediously detailed about what's going on in the model, he won't give out the code, and without the code, we can't say with certainty how the model works." Colby Cosh wrote that the model "is proprietary and irreproducible. That last feature makes it unwise to use Silver's model as a straw stand-in for "science", as if the model had been fully specified in a peer-reviewed journal".

The Signal and the Noise

The Signal and The Noise was published in the United States on September 27, 2012. It reached the New York Times Best Sellers List as #12 for non-fiction hardback books after its first week in print. It dropped to #20 in the second week, before rising to #13 in the third, and remaining on the non-fiction hardback top 15 list for the following 13 weeks, with a highest weekly ranking of #4. Sales increased after the election on November 6, jumping 800% and becoming the second best seller on Amazon.com.

The book describes methods of mathematical model-building using probability and statistics. Silver takes a big-picture approach to using statistical tools, combining sources of unique data (e.g., timing a minor league ball player's fastball using a radar gun), with historical data and principles of sound statistical analysis; Silver argues that many of these are violated by many pollsters and pundits who nonetheless have important media roles. Case studies in the book include baseball, elections, climate change, the financial crash, poker, and weather forecasting. These different topics illustrate different statistical principles. As a reviewer in The New York Times notes: "It's largely about evaluating predictions in a variety of fields, from finance to weather to epidemiology. We learn about a handful of successes: when, for instance, meteorologists predict a hurricane's landfall 72 hours in advance.... But mostly we learn about failures. It turns out we're not even close to predicting the next catastrophic earthquake or the spread of the next killer bird flu, despite the enormous amounts of brainpower trained on these questions in the past few decades".

Blogs and other publications
Blogs
 FiveThirtyEight blog, now owned by ABC
 Nate Silver's Baseball Prospectus article archive (2003–2009)
 Nate Silver's The Burrito Bracket (2007)

Other publications
 Nate Silver, "The Most Livable Neighborhoods in New York: A Quantitative Index of the 50 Most Satisfying Places to Live", New York, April 11, 2010.
 Nate Silver, "The Influence Index", Time, April 29, 2010.
 Nate Silver and Walter Hickey, "Best Picture Math", Vanity Fair, March 2014.
 Gareth Cook (Editor), Nate Silver (Introduction). The Best American Infographics 2014, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. .
 Review of two children's books, with an autobiographical comment: "Beautiful Minds: The Boy Who Loved Math and On a Beam of Light", The New York Times, July 12, 2013.
 Andrew Gelman, Nate Silver, Aaron S. Edlin, "What Is the Probability Your Vote Will Make a Difference", Economic Inquiry, 2012, 50(2): 321–26.
In addition to chapters in several issues of the Baseball Prospectus annual, Silver contributed chapters to one-off monographs edited by Baseball Prospectus, including:
Mind Game: How the Boston Red Sox Got Smart, Won a World Series, and Created a New Blueprint for Winning. Steven Goldman, Ed. New York: Workman Publishing Co., 2005. .
Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know about the Game Is Wrong. Jonah Keri, Ed. New York: Basic Books, 2006.  (hardback) and  (paperback).
It Ain't over 'til It's over: The Baseball Prospectus Pennant Race Book. Steven Goldman, Ed. New York: Basic Books. Hardback 2007. ; paperback 2008. .

Media
Silver's self-unmasking at the end of May 2008 brought him a lot of publicity focused on his combined skill as both baseball statistician-forecaster and political statistician-forecaster, including articles about him in The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Science News, and his hometown Lansing State Journal.

In early June he began to cross-post his daily "Today's Polls" updates on "The Plank" in The New Republic. Also, Rasmussen Reports began to use the FiveThirtyEight.com poll averages for its own tracking of the 2008 state-by-state races.

In 2009 through 2012, Silver appeared as a political analyst on MSNBC, CNN and Bloomberg Television, PBS, NPR, Democracy Now!, The Charlie Rose Show, ABC News, and Current TV.

Silver also appeared on The Colbert Report (October 7, 2008 and November 5, 2012), The Daily Show (October 17, 2012 and November 7, 2012), and Real Time with Bill Maher (October 26, 2012).

That Silver accurately predicted the outcome of the 2012 presidential race, in the face of numerous public attacks on his forecasts by critics, inspired many articles in the press, ranging from Gizmodo, to online and mainstream newspapers, news and commentary magazines, business media, trade journals, media about media, and Scientific American, as well as a feature interview on The Today Show, a return appearance on The Daily Show, and an appearance on Morning Joe

Silver's first appearance on ABC News as Editor-in-Chief of the new FiveThirtyEight.com was on George Stephanopoulos's This Week on November 3, 2013.

Silver is referenced in the Syfy channel show The Magicians as an earth wizard who uses polling spells.

In 2015, Silver appeared on the podcast Employee of the Month, where he criticized Vox Media for "recycling Wikipedia entries" in their content.

Selected recognition and awards
 April 30, 2009: Silver was named one of "The World's 100 Most Influential People" by TIME magazine.
 May 12, 2013: Silver received an honorary Doctor of Science degree (Scientiæ Doctor honoris causa – D.Sc. h.c.) and gave the commencement address at Ripon College.
 May 24, 2013: Silver received an honorary Doctor of Literature degree (Doctor of Literature honoris causa) and presented a commencement address at The New School.
 October 2013: Silver's The Signal and the Noise won the 2013 Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, which recognizes "outstanding contributions by scientists to the literature of science".
 December 2013: The University of Leuven (KU Leuven) (Belgium) and the Leuven Statistics Research Centre awarded Silver an honorary doctoral degree "for his prominent role in the development, application, and dissemination of proper prediction methods in sports and in political sciences".
 May 25, 2014: Silver received a Doctorate of Humane Letters, honoris causa, from Amherst College.
May 2017: Georgetown University awarded Silver a degree of Doctor of Humane Letters honoris causa.
May 2018: Kenyon College awarded Silver a degree, Doctor of Humane Letters.

Personal life
In a 2012 interview with Charlie Rose he said, "I'd say I’m somewhere in between being a libertarian and a liberal. So if I were to vote, it would be kind of a Gary Johnson versus Mitt Romney decision, I suppose."

Silver is a great-nephew of geologists Caswell Silver and Leon Silver. He is a great-grandson of Harmon Lewis, the President of Alcoa Steamship Company, as well as a great-great-nephew of the embryologist Warren Harmon Lewis and his wife, biologist Margaret Reed Lewis.

Silver is openly gay. "I've always felt like something of an outsider. I've always had friends but I've always come from an outside point of view. I think that's important. If you grow up gay, or in a household that's agnostic, when most people are religious, then from the get-go, you are saying there are things that the majority of society believes that I don't believe", he told an interviewer in 2012. "When asked what made you feel more of a misfit, being gay or being a geek, he replied, 'Probably the numbers stuff since I had that from when I was six.'" When asked in 2008 if he had noticed people looking at him as a "gay icon", he responded, "I've started to notice it a little bit, although so far it seems like I'm more a subject of geek affection than gay affection".

Silver discussed his sexuality in the context of growing up in East Lansing, in an article about the Supreme Court ruling Obergefell v. Hodges in favor of recognizing same-sex marriage on the date of its announcement. He analyzed the speed of the change of public sentiment, pointing out that the change over only several decades has been palpable to the current generations.

Silver has long been interested in fantasy baseball, especially Scoresheet Baseball. While in college he served as an expert on Scoresheet Baseball for BaseballHQ. When he took up political writing, Silver abandoned his blog, The Burrito Bracket, in which he ran a one-and-done competition among the taquerias in his Wicker Park neighborhood in Chicago.

Silver plays poker semi-professionally.

See also

 Computational statistics
 Editorial board
 LGBT culture in New York City
 List of LGBT people from New York City
 New Yorkers in journalism
 Political analysis
 Sports betting

References

Further reading

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The discography of American recording artist Nate Dogg consists of three studio albums, one compilation album, one collaboration album, and 40 singles (including 35 singles as a featured artist).

Albums

Studio albums

Collaborative albums

Compilation albums
Essentials (2002)

Singles

As lead artist

As featured artist

Promotional singles

Guest appearances 
Nate Dogg has also appeared on several tracks released by the following artists:
 213 - "Falling In Love Again" 
 213 - "She Wasn't Feelin Me"
 2Pac - "All About U" (featuring Nate Dogg, Fatal-n-Felony, Dru Down, Snoop Doggy Dogg) (1996)
 2Pac - "Skandalouz" (featuring Nate Dogg) (1996)
 2Pac - "Changed Man" (featuring Big Syke, Nate Dogg) (1996) (Unreleased)
 2Pac - "Changed Man (Johnny J Remix)" (featuring Nate Dogg, Big Syke) (Unreleased)
 2Pac - "All About U (Remix)" (featuring Nate Dogg, Fatal-n-Felony, Dru Down, Top Dogg) (1998)
 2Pac - "Teardrops And Closed Caskets (Original) (featuring Nate Dogg, Outlawz) (1999)
 2Pac - "Hold Up" (featuring Nate Dogg) (2003)
 2Pac - "Thugs Get Lonely Too" (featuring Nate Dogg) (2004)
 5 Footaz - "Dip" (featuring Nate Dogg) (2001)
 50 Cent - "21 Questions" (featuring Nate Dogg) (2003)
 Anderson .Paak - "What Can We Do?" (featuring Nate Dogg) (2019)
 Baby Bash - "That's My Lady" (Money) (featuring Nate Dogg) (2005)
 Bad Azz - "Don't Hate" (featuring Nate Dogg, Tray Deee, R.G.) (2001)
 Big Syke - "Come Over" (featuring Nate Dogg) (2002)
 Big King - "Keep Doin What They Hate" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Bishop Brigante - "It's Fo' Twenty" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Bishop Lamont - "I'm Faded" (featuring Nate Dogg SonReal)
 Black Rob - "The Game" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Brian McKnight - "Don't Know Where to Start" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 C-Murder - "Ghetto Millionaire" (featuring Snoop Dogg, Kurupt, Nate Dogg)
 Charlie Wilson - "Big Pimpin" (featuring Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg)
 Cee-Lo - "Enjoy Yourself" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Chico & Coolwadda - "High Come Down" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Chingy - "All the Way to St. Lou'" (featuring Nate Dogg, David Banner)
 Craig David - "7 Days (Remix)" (featuring Mos Def, Nate Dogg)
 Crooked I - "Crook in Me" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Damizza - "Can't Knock The Hustle" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Daz Dillinger - "Boyz n the Hood" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Daz Dillinger - "Come Close" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Daz Dillinger - "O.G." (featuring Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg)
 Deuce Poppi - "O Wee O" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 DFC - "Things in tha Hood" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 DFC - "Things in tha Hood (remix)" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 DJ Quik - "Black Mercedes" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 DJ Quik - "Medley For a 'V'" (featuring Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg, Hi-C, AMG, 2nd II None)
 DJ Quik - "What They Think" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 The D.O.C. - "Concrete Jungle" (featuring Nate Dogg, Six-Two, Jazze Pha, Up Tight)
 Doggy's Angels - "Curious" (featuring Nate Dogg, Snoop Dogg)
 Dove Shack - "The Dove Shack is Back" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Dr. Dre - "Deeez Nuuuts" (featuring Snoop Dogg, Daz Dillinger, Nate Dogg, Warren G)
 Dr. Dre - "The Next Episode" (featuring Snoop Dogg, Kurupt, Nate Dogg)
 Dr. Dre - "Xxplosive" (featuring Hittman, Kurupt, Nate Dogg, Six-Two)
 Dresta - "Victims of Reality" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 D-Shot - "Money, Sex & Thugs" (featuring E-40, Nate Dogg, Butch Cassidy)
 Down A.K.A. Kilo - "I'm Coming Home To You" (featuring Nate Dogg) (2007) 
 E-40 - "Nah, Nah" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 E-40 - "Sinister Mob" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Eminem - "Bitch Please II" (featuring Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Xzibit, Nate Dogg)
 Eminem - "'Till I Collapse" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Eminem - "Never Enough" (featuring Nate Dogg, 50 Cent)
 Eminem - "Shake That" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Eminem - "Shake That (Remix)" (featuring Nate Dogg, Obie Trice, Bobby Creekwater  Lil Skeeter)
 Eve - "Hey Y'all" (featuring Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg)
 Fabolous - "Can't Deny It" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Fabolous - "Popo" (featuring Nate Dogg, Paul Cain)
 Fat Tone - "Money Rules" (featuring E-40, Nate Dogg, Butch Cassidy)
 Fatboy Chubb - "Money In The Hood" (featuring Nate Dogg, J-Young)
 Freeway - "All My Life" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Guce - "Game Dont Wait" (featuring Messy Marv, Nate Dogg)
 Guerilla Black - "What We Gonna Do" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Hi-C - "I Don't Wanna Know" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Houston - "I Like That" (featuring Nate Dogg, Chingy, I-20)
 Hush - "Hush is Coming" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Jadakiss - "Time's Up" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Jadakiss - "When Kiss is Spittin'" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Jermaine Dupri - "Ballin Outta Control" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Jermaine Dupri - "Whatever" (featuring Nate Dogg, R.O.C., Skeeter Rock, Tigah, Katrina)
 Joe Budden - "Gangsta Party" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 JS - "Good Life" (featuring Nas, Nate Dogg)
 K-Mel - "Reflexions" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 K-Mel - "Reflexions (Remix)" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Knoc-turn'al - "Him or Me" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Knoc-turn'al - "Str8 West Coast (Remix)" (featuring Xzibit, Warren G, Nate Dogg, Shade Sheist)
 Knoc-turn'al - "Twisted" (featuring Nate Dogg, Drastic, Armed Robbery)
 Knoc-turn'al - "What We Do" (featuring Xzibit, Nate Dogg, Warren G)
 Kokane - "You Could Be" (featuring Snoop Dogg, Tha Eastsidaz, Nate Dogg)
 Kontrafakt - "Polnočná Pičakolada" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Kurupt - "Behind the Walls" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Kurupt - "Girls All Pause" (featuring Nate Dogg, Roscoe)
 Kurupt - "Neva Gonna Give It Up" (featuring Nate Dogg, Warren G, Tray Deee, Snoop Dogg, Soopafly)
 Kurupt - "Lay It On Back" (featuring Fred Durst, Nate Dogg)
 Kurupt - "Space Boogie" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Kurupt - "The Hardest Muthafuckaz" (featuring Nate Dogg, MC Ren, Xzibit)
 Lethal Interjection - "Eff Grandad" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Lil' Flip - "Take You There" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Lil' Jon - "Bitches Ain't Shit" (featuring Nate Dogg, Snoop Dogg, Suga Free)
 Lloyd Banks - "Til The End" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Lloyd Banks - "Warrior Part 2" (featuring Eminem, Nate Dogg, 50 Cent)
 Ludacris - "Area Codes" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Ludacris - "Child of the Night" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Ludacris - Good Relationships (featuring Katt Williams, Snoop Dogg Nate Dogg)
 Mack 10 - "Like This" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Mariah Carey - "If We" (featuring Ja Rule, Nate Dogg)
 Mariah Carey - "If We (Remix)" (featuring Shade Sheist, Ja Rule, Nate Dogg)
 Mark Ronson - "Ooh Wee" (featuring Ghostface Killah, Trife Da God Nate Dogg)
 Mark Ronson - "Ooh Wee (Remix)" (featuring Ghostface Killah, Trife Da God, Nate Dogg, Saigon, Freeway)
 Mastacraft - "One Night Stand (European Version)" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Memphis Bleek - "You Need Dick in Your Life" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Messy Marv - "Oh No, Pt. 2" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Mic Little - "Golden State" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Mista Grimm - "Indo Smoke" (featuring Nate Dogg, Warren G)
 Mister D - "Should Of Been Mine" (featuring Nate Dogg, Sleepy Malo)
 Mobb Deep - "Have a Party" (featuring Nate Dogg, 50 Cent)
 Mobb Deep - "Dump" (feat Nate Dogg)
 Mos Def - "Oh No" (featuring Nate Dogg, Pharaohe Monch)
 Mr. Capone-E - "Came to Me in a Dream" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Mr. Capone-E - "I Like It" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Mr. Criminal - "Mami Mira" (featuring Nate Dogg & Mr.Capone-E)
 Ms. Jade - "Dead Wrong" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Nelly - "L.A." (featuring Snoop Dogg & Nate Dogg)
 N.U.N.E. - "Gangstafied Lady" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 N.U.N.E. - "Gangstafied Lady (Remix)" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Obie Trice - "Look in My Eyes" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Obie Trice - "All of My Life" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Obie Trice - "The Set Up" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Obie Trice - "The Set Up (Remix)" (featuring Nate Dogg, Redman, Jadakiss, Lloyd Banks)
 OG Daddy V - "Trouble" (featuring Nate Dogg, E-White & RBX)
 Outlawz - "Teardrops & Closed Caskets" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Play-n-Skillz - "Do Me" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Proof - "Sammy Da Bull" (featuring Nate Dogg, Swift)
 Psy 4 de la Rime - "A l'Ancienne" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Rappin' 4-Tay - "If It Wasn't 4 You" (featuring Nate Dogg, Suga Free)
 Ras Kass - "4 Much" (featuring Nate Dogg, Bad Azz, Tash)
 Ray J - "Smokin Smokin" (featuring Nate Dogg, Snoop Dogg, Shorty Mack)
 Redman - "Merry Jane" (featuring Snoop Dogg  Nate Dogg)
 Redd Soul - "What U Wanna Be" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Rock - "Walk Like a G" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Roscoe - "Nasty Girl" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Shade Sheist - "Cali Diseaze" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Shade Sheist - "Everybody Wants 2b da Man" (featuring N.U.N.E, Nate Dogg, Grath, Shade Sheist)
 Shade Sheist - "Gangstafied Lady" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Shade Sheist - "Gangstafied Lady (Remix)" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Shade Sheist - "Hey Yo" (featuring Nate Dogg, N.U.N.E., Eddie Kane Jr.)
 Shade Sheist - "Playmate" (featuring Nate Dogg, N.U.N.E, Shade Sheist)
 Shade Sheist - "Sex Sells" (featuring Nate Dogg, Snoop Dogg, Redrum, Eddie Kane Jr., Shade Sheist, N.U.N.E.)
 Shade Sheist - "Steady Wastin" (featuring Shade Shiest, Nate Dogg, Nitty Black, Lieutenant)
 Shade Sheist - "Wake Up" (featuring Nate Dogg, Warren G)
 Shade Sheist - "Walk a Mile" (featuring Nate Dogg, Vita, Nune)
 Shade Sheist - "What Would You Do" (featuring N.U.N.E., Nate Dogg, Mariah Carey)
 Shade Sheist - "Where I Wanna Be" (featuring Nate Dogg, Kurupt)
 Shaquille O'Neal - "Connected" (featuring Nate Dogg, W.C.)
 Shyne - "Behind The Walls (Remix)" (featuring Kurupt, Nate Dogg)
 Simon Vegas - "One Night Stand" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 SNBRN - "Gangsta Walk" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Snoop Dogg - "Ain't No Fun" (featuring Nate Dogg, Kurupt, Warren G)
 Snoop Dogg - "Bitch Please" (featuring Xzibit, Nate Dogg)
 Snoop Dogg - "Boss' Life" remix (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Snoop Dogg - "Crazy" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Snoop Dogg - "Don't Fight The Feelin'" (featuring Nate Dogg, Cam'ron, Lady May, Soopafly)
 Snoop Dogg - "Don't Tell" (featuring Warren G, Mausberg, Nate Dogg)
 Snoop Dogg - "Eastside Party" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Snoop Dogg - "Family Reunion" (featuring Nate Dogg, Bad Azz, Warren G, Soopafly)
 Snoop Dogg - "Gangsta Wit It" (featuring Nate Dogg, Butch Cassidy)
 Snoop Dogg - "Groupie" (featuring Tha Dogg Pound, Warren G, Nate Dogg)
 Snoop Dogg - "Lay Low" (featuring Nate Dogg, Butch Cassidy, Tha Eastsidaz, Master P)
 Snoop Dogg - "LBC'n It Up" (featuring Nate Dogg, Lil' 1/2 Dead)
 Snoop Dogg - "Lollipop" (featuring Soopafly, Nate Dogg, Jay-Z)
 Snoop Dogg - "Long Beach 2 Brick City" (featuring Redman, Nate Dogg)
 Snoop Dogg - "Rollin Down The Highway" (featuring Nate Dogg, Warren G)
 Snoop Dogg - "Santa Clause Goes Straight to the Ghetto" (featuring Bad Azz, Daz Dillinger, Nate Dogg, Tray Deee)
 Snoop Dogg - "Wannabes" (featuring Young Jeezy, Nate Dogg)
 Snoop Dogg - "Set It Off"  (featuring MC Ren, Ice Cube, Lady of Rage, Nate Dogg, Kurupt)
 Snoop Dogg - "St. Ides" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Snoop Dogg - "The Game's Play'd Out" (featuring Nate Dogg, Prince Ital Joe)
 Snoop Dogg - "Wintertime in June" (featuring Nate Dogg & James Fauntleroy) (2019)
 Snoop Dogg - "Outside the Box" (featuring Nate Dogg) (2022)
 Soopafly - "Number 1" (featuring Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg,  Daz Dillinger)
 Steady Mobb'n - "Let's Get It Crackin" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Tamia - "Can't Go For That" (featuring Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg, Warren G)
 The Game - "Special" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 The Game - "Where I'm From" (featuring Dr. Dre, Nate Dogg)
 The Game - "Too Much" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 The Notorious B.I.G. - "Runnin' Your Mouth" (featuring Fabolous, Nate Dogg, Busta Rhymes, Foxy Brown  Snoop Dogg)
 The Team - "Feel the Music" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Tha Dogg Pound - "A Dogg'z Day Afternoon" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Tha Dogg Pound - "Big Pimpin" (featuring Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg)
 Tha Dogg Pound - "Cheat'n Ass Lover" (featuring Soopafly, Nate Dogg & Dru Drown)
 Tha Dogg Pound - "Don't Sweat It" (featuring Nate Dogg, RBX)
 Tha Dogg Pound - "Hard on a Hoe" (featuring Nate Dogg, RBX)
 Tha Dogg Pound - "I Don't Like to Dream About Gettin' Paid" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Tha Dogg Pound - "Just Doggin'" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Tha Dogg Pound - "Let's Play House" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Tha Dogg Pound - "Real Soon" (featuring Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg)
 Tha Eastsidaz - "Cool" (featuring Butch Cassidy, Nate Dogg)
 Tha Eastsidaz - "Eastside Ridaz" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Tha Eastsidaz - "Ghetto" (featuring Kokane, Kam, Nate Dogg)
 Tha Eastsidaz - "Let's Go" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Tha Eastsidaz - "Welcome to the House" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 The Click - "Rock Ya Body" (featuring Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg, Tha Dogg Pound)
 Thug Life - "How Long Will They Mourn Me" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Various Artist (Music for relief Charity) - "Forever in Our Hearts"
 Warren G - "Annie Mae" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Warren G - "100 Miles & Runnin" (featuring Nate Dogg  Raekwon) 2009
 Warren G - "Clownin" (featuring Nate Dogg) 2007
 Warren G - "Gangsta Love" (featuring Kurupt, Nate Dogg, RBX)
 Warren G - "Havin Thangs" (featuring Jermaine Dupri, Nate Dogg)
 Warren G - "Here Comes Another Hit" (featuring Nate Dogg, Mistah Grimm)
 Warren G - "I Need a Light" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Warren G - "Mid-Nite Hour" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Warren G - "PYT" (featuring Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg)
 Warren G - "Regulate" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Warren G - "The Game Don't Wait" (featuring Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg)
 Warren G - "The Game Don't Wait (Remix)" (featuring Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg, Xzibit)
 Warren G - "What U Wanna Do" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Warren G - "Yo Sassy Ways" (featuring Nate Dogg, Snoop Dogg)
 WC - "Paper Trippin'" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 WC - "The Streets" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 WC - "The Streets (Remix)" (featuring Nate Dogg, Snoop Dogg)
 Westside Connection - "Gangsta Nation" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Westside Connection - "Gangsta Nation (Fredwreck Remix)" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Xzibit - "Been a Long Time" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Xzibit - "Multiply" (featuring Nate Dogg)
 Xzibit - "My Name" (featuring Eminem, Nate Dogg)
 Yukmouth - "So Ignorant" (featuring Nate Dogg, Kokane, Kurupt)

References

External links
 Nate Dogg at AllMusic
 
 

Hip hop discographies
Discographies of American artists Big Nate: In the Zone is a realistic fiction novel by American cartoonist Lincoln Peirce. It is based on the comic strip and is the 6th book in the Big Nate novel series. The book was released in 2014 and it is aimed at children aged 8 to 12. It was published by HarperCollins Publishers.

Plot
Nate states that a frozen waffle has "ruined his life" and is currently being yelled at by Principal Nichols because Teddy accidentally destroyed his War of 1812 outline. Nate then retells a dramatic flashback of the day before for the reader to know what happened. In the flashback, Mrs. Godfrey gives everyone an assignment to write a report on the War of 1812, which is due tomorrow. Teddy helps him due to his dad being a history geek. Nate soon forgets to bring the outline to his house, and he calls Teddy and sure enough, Teddy said he would take good care of it. But the next morning, he decides to eat a frozen waffle with maple syrup over cereal, and he spills the maple syrup all over the outline and attempts to make the maple syrup was off the paper, but this just makes it ruined even more and turned it into a "soggy, syrupy pile of confetti," defined by Nate. Nate finds an empty plastic bottle and starts bonking himself with it on his forehead. Mrs. Godfrey makes Nate dispose of it, but Nate tries to throw it in the trash can, which makes it bounce on the trash can and hit Principal Nichols, spilling a drink the principal was holding all over Principal Nichols by accident. During the past week, he has had a terrible case of bad luck, including failing grades, cavities, and being easily made fun of. Later, after Nate fails to turn in his outline, he is tasked with completing another one.

After finishing, he notices his crush, Jenny, and her boyfriend, Artur, who are rather obnoxiously displaying love. An envious Nate then makes a list of horrible pet names and insults that he feels Artur should be called, including "Fart Bucket" "Nate Wanna-be", "Weasel Boy", "Booger Bunny", "Soon-to-be former boyfriend", and much more. Chad appears and notices Nate. After being asked what he was working on, Nate lies quickly and says he was about to start an "Ultra-Nate" comic. Chad requests to also be in the book. Chad, who has a crush on Maya, asks Nate if she could be saved by him. Nate finishes the comic and is prompted by Chad to start thinking about life with superpowers.

The bad luck, however makes Nate suppose he could theoretically simulate landing after flying. Nate jumps off a table and on to a beanbag, bursting it wide open. Nate is then yelled at for the third time of the day. Nate and Chad are given detention and asked to fix the beanbag chair. While fixing it, the home economics teacher, Mrs. Brindle, instead of serving cookies ore other desserts, which she normally does, she serves stuffed cabbage rolls because the school is holding a fitness zone. After they are done, they notice that due to the new program, all the snacks in the vending machine have been stocked with health foods. Their friend, Dee Dee, shows up and says that Nate has to report to the principal's office. Nate arrives and is greeted by Nichols. Nichols states that the fitness zone needs to be welcomed in a popular way: music. Nichols then asks Nate to create a song out of the rules of the fitness zone. Nichols also cancels Nate and Chad's detentions, due to the fact that Nate and Chad have a role in their band, Enslave The Mollusk. 

After school, ETM (Enslave The Mollusk) creates a rock anthem called "You're Never Alone In The Fitness Zone," key of C. When Artur is assigned to take the rules and convert them to lyrics, Nate's terrible luck causes Artur to notice the list of pet names, resulting in him quitting out of embarrassment. Without a lead singer, ETM has to choose between Nate, Francis (both have "natural disasters" for voices) and Teddy (not skilled enough to sing and play at the same time). They choose on Nate, him having an edge over Francis. The next day, Nate comes down with nerves and forgets the lyrics, forcing Francis to take over as the singer, making ETM a laughingstock. They are especially teased by a popular 7th-grader named Marcus Goode. The next week, report cards get sent home, with Nate getting an unacceptable grade in Social Studies (technically a D). 

However, he is then given a lucky foot charm by Chad, which he refers to as "the Foot" his grandmother gave him for good luck. Immediately, good luck happens everywhere in Nate's life. He is able to shoot a hoop that barely touches the net from mid-court, backwards, and with his eyes closed, a math test is postponed due to Mr. Staples photocopying the wrong quiz and the copy machine being broken, a free period is given to Nate at Science when Mr. Galvin fell ill, so he went home, and he is given $20 by some lady, all because he found her necklace in the grass.

Unfortunately for Nate's luck, Maya is shown to be going out with Marcus, which ends up making Chad heartbroken. Later, Nate finds out he has to go back home, as Nate's dad wants to discuss on his report card. However, he then reveals one of his report cards back then, when he was not exactly a "honor roll student". But Nate's dad still gives him a punishment of no drawing comics before bed. Nate loopholes around this and he finds out that his dad did not prevent him to draw on his sneakers. The stylized sneakers make him more popular than Marcus, causing Marcus to be very envious of Nate. Over the next week, Nate becomes "in the zone". He is asked to sign other kids' sneakers, his punishment is canceled, he is the MVP of back-to-back shutouts in soccer, and gets perfect scores on all his tests. However, he realizes is becoming like Artur. Nate mentally digresses and asks Artur to rejoin ETM. After successfully inviting Artur back, they run into Coach Calhoun, who tells them about Field Day. Marcus and Maya appear and Marcus makes a bet that 6th-grade will not win a single event on Field Day as well as calling Chad "Superchunk." Maya steps up angrily and tells Marcus to stop, stating "What's he ever done to you!?" then breaking up with Marcus. Nate then gives the Foot to Chad so he can try to hook up with a remorseful Maya.

However, the luck stops, as in a turn of events, the Foot ends up in Mrs. Godfrey's desk due to Mrs. Godfrey thinking it's a "toy" after finding it in Chad's hand. On Field Day, the 6th-graders are given the sports they are the worst at, and Gina is captain of the 6th graders. Nate has to do the 60 meter hurdles, and though he was able to gain a head start, he trips over the last hurdle, causing his competitor, Kareem Trillin, to win. The last sport is the three-legged race. Nate and Artur team up to make sure that Chad and Maya are a team. Soon, because Marcus and his partner, Jakob, do not work together, while Maya and Chad do, Nate wins the bet. The next week, an assembly is announced to give ETM a second chance. Before playing, Nate reveals that if he lost the bet, it would be a nightmare-- he would become a mini Marcus for a week. He also states that Marcus is about to be defamed. The song is a success, and Marcus is humiliated in front of the school with Chad hitting Marcus' head with a bottle and Nate states that he and his pals do not need the lucky foot when their show is currently a hit.

Characters
Nate Wright: a rebellious 6th-grader and the main protagonist.
Chad Applewhite: a friend of Nate and one of Nate's good friends.
Marcus Goode: a bully 7th-grader and the main antagonist.
Teddy Ortiz: a best friend of Nate.
Maya: the love interest of Chad.
Artur Pashkov: the singer of ETM and Jenny's exchange student boyfriend.
Francis Pope: Nate's best friend.
Jenny Jenkins: Artur's girlfriend and the girl whom Nate has a crush on, though she finds Nate to be completely annoying and bothering.

References

American children's novels
2014 American novels
2014 children's books
Big Nate