Nate Silver and his ilk have proven they can predict elections with high accuracy, so maybe it’s time to move on from focusing on the forecasts. I know Republicans will likely… Read more »
The Nieman Journalism Lab published a thoughtful critique of data journalism on Wednesday, but there are additional things the emerging space could do live up to its hype, including getting more… Read more »
As Jay Rosen argues, the days when it was enough to just give both sides of a story — without providing any additional viewpoints or fact-checking — are over. He said/she… Read more »
Incubating new digital news brands is exactly what traditional news organizations should be doing right now. But they need to treat them as genuine startups, with the expectation that they will… Read more »
Ezra Klein and the team behind the popular politics blog Wonkblog just launched a viral site called Know More. It’s “an effort to break the slow web into parts that work… Read more »
Would-be data scientists should work with data up close rather than book learning, says TheFiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver. Although a stats course won’t hurt. Read more »
Super data analyst Nate Silver talks about his plans for the new-and-expanded FiveThirtyEight blog from ESPN. Anyone wanting Silver to run in with in-game analysis or predictions might be disappointed. Read more »
Nate Silver, whose super popular politics blog FiveThirtyEight is leaving the New York TimesĀ (s NYT) and becoming a separate site at ESPN, did a podcast with Bill Simmons. Silver calls the… Read more »
Don’t expect a revamped FiveThirtyEight right away: Nate Silver’s political blog will be hosted by the New York Times through the end of August, and it could be months before ESPN… Read more »
The departure of FiveThirtyEight blogger Nate Silver from the New York Times — and the bidding war with ESPN that preceded it — are just more evidence of how the balance… Read more »