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Crain’s 40 Under 40 for 2008 features a diverse lineup of up-and-comers, from chefs to statisticians to CEOs, in industries ranging from coffee to casinos, corrections to commercial real estate.
No. 30: Nate Silver: Managing partner, Baseball Prospectus; creator, FiveThirtyEight.com
Last winter, a young baseball prognosticator trumped the preseason magazines with a dead-on forecast: The perennial doormat Tampa Bay Rays would contend for a division title.
On May 6, a little-known political blogger bested national polls in predicting the victory margins in the Democratic primaries in North Carolina and Indiana, which all but sealed Barack Obama's victory over Hillary Clinton.
Both improbable calls belonged to Nate Silver, a 2000 University of Chicago economics grad who looks right at home in his hipster-thick Wicker Park neighborhood. His blending of algorithm-based predictive models and keen subjective insights has made him a trusted soothsayer for baseball geeks and political junkies alike...
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