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Re:FiveThirtyEight has a GitHub repo with story-related data... by vintermann on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @04:02AM (#11812775)
Data is nice, but even with it, 538 has gone alarmingly down the path of clickbait lately. Especially Casselman, with smarmy headlines like "The Rising Unemployment Rate Is Good News" or "Stuck In Your Parents’ Basement? Don’t Blame The Economy".
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Re:FiveThirtyEight has a GitHub repo with story-related data... by pessimizer on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @11:37AM (#11815229)
It's not lately. There was a precipitous drop in quality (of math and subject) as soon as they went to ESPN.
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