I’m glad that 538 share their data. At the end of their articles and ones like them, I’m often left with questions or little threads that just having the data would help me explore.

Case in point: after their discussion of the bechdel test, I was able to explore follow on questions of my own:

https://28mm.github.io/notes/bechdel-test

Without their data, I probably wouldn’t have bothered, or thought much about it.