It's Official: Nate Silver Leaves 'New York Times' for ESPN

Data whiz and nerd demigod Nate Silver has left The New York Times for sports media giant ESPN

Silver and ESPN officially announced the new pairing on Monday afternoon via Twitter and a post to ESPN's media site. In a twist, however, New York Times reporter Brian Stelter actually first reported the move on Friday, citing "ESPN employees with direct knowledge of his plans."

Silver's role with ESPN, however, will be a bit different — and perhaps more interesting — than you might guess

He'll expand his FiveThirtyEight.com site to include sports data analysis and more, returning it to its original URL from fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com, the address it used while with the Times. Along with sports data, Silver will continue to analyze political elections as well as other topics including science, technology and economics