Posted by cmsparks 3 hours ago
Fortunately the Github is still up: https://github.com/fivethirtyeight
I need to mirror everything to keep it accessible when they decide to shut this down, too?
I loved that site, and referred people to it frequently.
ABC officially sunset 538 over a year ago (and laid off most/all of the staff).
Edit: nm it was definitely the burrito battle royale bracket. Big burrito couldn’t handle the truth being revealed about their restaurants.
All this proves is when the press was deregulated to allow one person to own all the media they can afford brought us were we are now.
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They had a good article about how their predictions were much better than you'd expect, but obviously I can't link it anymore because ABC removed it.
But in the end people pick on Nate because he really enjoys being an asshole on the internet. It's far more about when he acts as a pundit, not as an expert on statistics.
So in an election, that happens all the time. It just doesn't always happen in the race for president.