Political Analytics 2016 is proud to bring these diverse players together, for the first time, for a non-partisan look at the analytics behind politics.

The conference is the creation of Ryan Enos and Kirk Goldsberry. It is hosted by the Harvard Center for American Political Studies (Stephen Ansolabehere, Director) and sponsored by Microsoft.

NATE SILVER

Founder & Editor in Chief, FiveThirtyEight

Nate Silver is a statistician, ABC News Special Correspondent and a best-selling author. He successfully called the outcomes in 49 of the 50 states in the 2008 election and was named one of the World's Most Influential People by TIME Magazine in 2009.

Harvard University

Steve Ansolabehere is the Director for the Center for American Political Studies and an expert in public opinion and elections. He is a member of the Board of Overseers of the American National Election Study.

Visiting Scholar, Harvard / VP, San Antonio Spurs

Kirk Goldsberry is a sport and political geographer and writer specializing in spatial reasoning, visual communication and representation. He was a visiting scholar at Harvard University and a staff writer at Grantland.

Founding Partner, 270 Strategies

Jeremy Bird is a Founding Partner at 270 Strategies, a grassroots organizing firm. He helped launch 270 Strategies after serving as the national field director for the 2012 re-election campaign of President Barack Obama.

Yale University

Eitan Hersh is an assistant professor of political science at Yale. He is an expert in campaign strategy, voting behavior, information technology and politics, and election administration. He is the author of Hacking the Electorate.

Stanford University

Simon Jackman is an expert on American electoral politics, public opinion, democratic representation, and survey research. He co-directs the Stanford Center for American Democracy, is a principal investigator of the American National Election Studies and as of April 2016 is the Chief Executive Officer of the United States Studies Center at the University of Sydney.

University of Texas at Austin

Shannon McGregor is a doctoral candidate in journalism specializing in political communication, digital media, gender, and public opinion. Her research involves using social media data to comprehend how political actors, media, and the public interact with political events on social networks.

FiveThirtyEight

Clare Malone is a senior political writer for FiveThirtyEight. She served on the editorial staffs of The New Yorker and The American Prospect and her writing has appeared in many national news outlets.

CBS News

Anthony Salvanto is Director of Elections for CBS News. He heads the Decision Desk that projects elections, conducts polling including the CBS News Battleground Tracker, analyzes key races and public opinion and appears across broadcasts including Face the Nation and all other CBS broadcasts.

Michigan State University

Karl Gude is a professor for the School of Journalism at Michigan State University. He has an extensive background in information graphics, working in the field for news outlets such as Newsweek, The Associated Press, and The National Sports Daily. He is currently spearheading the first information-graphics program at MSU.

The Upshot, New York Times

Nate Cohn is a writer for The Upshot and writes frequently on polling, demographics, and elections. He was a staff writer for The New Republic and a Scoville Fellow at the Stimson Center, where his expertise lied in analysis of South Asia and the defense budget.

Vox

Dylan Matthews is a senior correspondent at Vox, a general interest news site founded by Ezra Klein, Matt Yglesias, and Melissa Bell. He writes frequently on tax and economic policy, anti-poverty programs, and philanthropy, among other topics.

Emerson College

Catherine D'Ignazio is an Assistant Professor of Data Visualization in the Journalism Department at Emerson College and a Research Affiliate at the MIT Center for Civic Media. She builds software to foster data literacy, teaches media innovation, and creates civic art.

Economist, Microsoft Research

David Rothschild, an economist at Microsoft Research and fellow at the Applied Statistics Center at Columbia, studies both user engagement with online data, polling, and markets, and aggregation of that data into sentiment and forecasts. He correctly predicted 50 of 51 Electoral College outcomes in 2012.

The New York Times

Wesley Morris is a renowned journalist and a Critic at Large for the New York Times. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2011 for his work with The Boston Globe and was a former full-time writer for Grantland.

The Huffington Post

Natalie Jackson is Senior Polling Editor at Huffington Post, coordinating the Pollster section of the site. Natalie has a PhD in political science from the University of Oklahoma and previously worked as a postdoctoral associate at Duke University and as senior analyst at the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

National Public Radio

Bob Garfield is a co-host on the radio program On the Media that specializes in analyzing news media and information in America and abroad. He also is both a visiting lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication and a senior fellow at SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management at Penn’s Wharton School.

MSNBC

Steve Kornacki is a political writer and television host, known for his work in The New York Times, The New York Observer, Up with Steve Kornacki and MTP Daily. He is a political analyst for MSNBC's coverage of breaking news for the 2016 election.

Co-Founder, Echelon Insights

Kristen Soltis Anderson is co-founder of Echelon Insights, an opinion research and data analytics firm. She is the author of The Selfie Vote: Where Millennials Are Leading America (And How Republicans Can Keep Up). Additionally, she is a columnist at The Washington Examiner and regularly appears on programs such as Morning Joe. In 2014, she was a fellow at Harvard's Institute of Politics.

Former U.S. Representative

Barney Frank is the former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts where he served as chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. He is a distinguished author and contributor for Politico and CNBC.

Harvard University

Ryan Enos is a social scientist specializing in political psychology, race and ethnic politics, and political behavior in the United States. He is a fellow of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science and the Center for American Political Studies.

MTV News

Ana Marie Cox is a renowned journalist and author working at a variety of news outlets such as MTV News, The Daily Beast, and Time magazine. She is also the founder of political blog Wonkette and is the author of best-selling novel Dog Days.

Stanford University

Bradley Spahn is a doctoral candidate in political science at Stanford University, where he researches American politics and political methodology. His substantive work uses voter files and surveys to describe American electoral politics.

FiveThirtyEight

Harry Enten is a senior political writer and analyst for FiveThirtyEight, a website that focuses on opinion poll analysis, politics, public affairs, and sports through statistical methods. Prior to working for FiveThirtyEight, he covered the 2012 election cycle with The Guardian.

FiveThirtyEight

Andrei Scheinkman is a director of data and technology and a deputy editor for FiveThirtyEight. He has worked for The Huffington Post and The New York Times and is an expert in developing data-driven interactive features for online publications.

The Upshot, New York Times

Amanda Cox is an editor for The Upshot and is an expert in visual journalism involving graphics, interactives, and other multimedia on web platforms. Her work has vastly improved the reader experience for The New York Times to follow election returns and election coverage.

Harvard University

Alexander Hertel-Fernandez is a doctoral candidate in government and social policy focusing on American political economy. In July he will join Columbia University as an Assistant Professor. His forthcoming book, Politics at Work, examines how employers recruit workers into politics.

Dartmouth College

Brendan Nyhan is an Assistant Professor of Government at Dartmouth College and a contributor to The Upshot. Previously, he served as a media critic for Columbia Journalism Review, co-edited the fact-checking website Spinsanity, and co-authored All the President’s Spin, a New York Times bestseller.

Founder, Bold

Carrie Sheffield is founder of the new media company Bold. A senior contributor for Opportunity Lives, she wrote editorials for The Washington Times, covered Congress for Politico, and The Hill and economic policy at Forbes. She earned a Master's in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and analyzed the municipal bond market for Goldman Sachs and Moody's Investors Service.

Founding Partner, The Stagwell Group

Mark Penn is a former political strategist, consultant, and author. He was the former Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at Microsoft and has consulted for former President Bill Clinton and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, as well as many other political leaders around the world.

Founding Partner, Strategic, Partners & Media

Stuart Stevens is a founding partner in Strategic, Partners & Media and a contributor to The Daily Beast. He is currently working on a new show for HBO about Georgetown in the JFK era and has just completed a novel set at a political convention in the near future.

The Ringer

Bryan Curtis is the editor-at-large of The Ringer, a new digital venture from Bill Simmons. Before that, he worked at Grantland, Play: The New York Times Sports Magazine, Slate, and The New Republic.

Harvard University

Stephen Pettigrew is a PhD candidate in the Harvard Department of Government. His primary research interests are in American politics and political methodology. His dissertation focuses on problems related to administering elections in the US. In his spare time he covers sports analytics for several online publications.

Catalist, LLC

Yair Ghitza is Chief Scientist at Catalist LLC. Leading Catalist's statistical research and development, Yair has over a decade of experience in political microtargeting and statistical analysis. He holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University, where he specialized in the development of statistical and data visualization tools for understanding American politics.