Election data should be publicly available and easy to access at high granularity,…
Statistics
More than mean, median, and mode.
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Complete 2024 election data, for congressional districts
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Ignoring citizens’ privacy to build a centralized database and track people
DOGE is taking agency data in an effort to compile a master database…
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Research suggests less Facebook and Instagram is better for your emotional state
The National Bureau of Economic Research studied before-and-after effects of about 20,000 users…
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Halt of data collection that measures American society
As data provides ways to more accurately estimate how things are going, the…
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List of NOAA datasets to be discontinued
If you use NOAA data, now seems like a good time to download…
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DOGE possibly extracted data from National Labor Relations Board, whistleblower discloses
DOGE engineers were at the NLRB for a week but didn’t specify what…
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IRS agrees to send immigrant tax data to ICE
For Associated Press, Fatima Hussein reports:
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Simplified tariff calculations, ambiguously reciprocal
One might assume decisions that swing economies worldwide were based on careful research…
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Greatest two-hit wonders
Two-hit wonders are in between the obscure one-hit wonders and famous musicians. Chris…
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23andMe files for bankruptcy
23andMe, the business predicated on people sending cheek swabs to have their DNA…
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New York Times fills poll tracking gap left by FiveThirtyEight shutdown
FiveThirtyEight is gone, and along with its visualization-centric projects, so is their poll…
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Testing citation skills and overconfidence of AI chatbots
When you enter a query in traditional search engines, you get a list…
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Wall of receipts is wall of inconsistent records
The “Department of Government Efficiency” keeps a “Wall of Receipts” to signal transparency…
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Living 82-year-old Social Security recipient erroneously marked as dead
Pam Johnson got an email from her bank about her husband’s death. The…
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AI system to revoke student visas
For Axios, Marc Caputo reports:
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Instead of lying with data, just delete it altogether
Amanda Shendruk and Catherine Rampell, for Washington Post Opinion, highlight the current strategies…
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Political typology quiz
From Pew Research, this political typology quiz is from four years ago but…
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Access FiveThirtyEight resources while they’re still around
Last week, Disney laid off FiveThirtyEight employees and announced the site would cease…
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Frozen government money pipe
Planet Money explains the Daily Treasury Statement from the U.S. Treasury. The data…
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Creativity and optimization
For The New York Times, Siobhan Roberts talked to mathematician and Fields Medal…