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...collecting data, organizing data, exploring data for meaningful relationships, and so forth. Data journalists have the potential to add value in each of these ways, just as other types of journalists can add value by gathering evidence and writing stories...
Our logo depicts a fox (we call him Fox No. 92) as an allusion to a phrase originally attributed to the Greek poet Archilochus: “The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” We take a pluralistic approach and we hope to contribute to your understanding of the news in a variety of ways.
Our logo depicts a fox (we call him Fox No. 92) as an allusion to a phrase originally attributed to the Greek poet Archilochus: “The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” We take a pluralistic approach and we hope to contribute to your understanding of the news in a variety of ways.
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By no means do we think that everything can be broken down into a formula or equation. On the contrary, one of our roles will be to critique incautious uses of statistics when they arise elsewhere in news coverage. At other times, we’ll explore ways that consumers can use data to their advantage and level the playing field against corporations and governments...
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We hope you’ll gain insight and pleasure from our approach to the news and that you’ll visit us from time to time. We hope to demonstrate the value of data journalism as a practical and sustainable proposition.
It’s time for us to start making the news a little nerdier.
It’s time for us to start making the news a little nerdier.
Number-crunching gay boffin, Nate Silver, introduces the world to FiveThirtyEight 2.0, in a very, very long - some may some meandering - essay/manifesto
FiveThirtyEight.com re/launched yesterday.*
Thankfully there are lots of easy-to-understand infographics for simpletons like me.
* And not next Monday as I originally wrote - Oops! x
Thankfully there are lots of easy-to-understand infographics for simpletons like me.
* And not next Monday as I originally wrote - Oops! x
Do you recommend shorter, snappier, shallower, and shittier?
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DeleteTo explain my boo-boo - the letter is dated yesterday, and says 538 'launches Monday'. I misread this...
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