Nate Silver for the Holt Lecture
NATE SILVER: Baseball and Politics are Data Driven. The Holt Lecture.
Friday, September 20, 2013 from 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Bovard Auditorium
Silver recently joined ESPN in a multifaceted role that will include coverage of sports, economics, culture, science and technology on ESPN’s website. FiveThirtyEight.com will continue to provide data-driven coverage of politics, including forecasts of the 2014 and 2016 elections.
The Dennis F. and Brooks Holt Distinguished Lecture, is a speaker’s series established by longtime Price School board of councilor’s member Dennis Holt (founding chairman and CEO of U.S. International Media) and his wife, Brooks. The Holt programs support prominent practitioners, influential policy makers, and visiting scholars, who come to USC to give lectures, meet with students, faculty members, and the public to discuss issues and research in communication and public policy.