Let's make this birthday one to remember.

47 years old (Born on January 13, 1978)

Happy Birthday, Nate Silver! May your celebrations be statistically significant and filled with a 100% probability of cake. Your uncanny ability to predict all 50 states correctly in the 2012 presidential election still amazes us—though we're pretty sure you already calculated you'd hear that again today.

Here's hoping this year brings even more accurate forecasts, fewer margin-of-error jokes from friends (sorry!), and plenty of data-driven fun. Keep crunching those numbers; after all, birthdays are just another chance for statisticians like yourself to prove age is merely an outlier on life's scatter plot. Cheers to many successful predictions ahead!