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Data and code behind the articles and graphics at FiveThirtyEight

14 mentions on Hacker News by 14 people: 3 stories, 11 comments · first 2014-05-21 · latest 2024-11-22

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  1. US births by day data is available here: https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/births For the period 2000-2014 the number of births by month, divided by the number of days in a month, is: 1 31 5 072 588 163 631.87 2 28 4 725…
    comment by bambax · 2024-11-22 · in The Birthday Paradox Experiment (2018)
  2. …years that have a Feb 29th). So what is the level of rarity that makes a day not worth calculating? https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/blob/master/births/U...
    comment by upon_drumhead · 2024-07-27 · in Covering All Birthdays
  3. https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data
    comment by psychanarch · 2020-01-24 · in Hundreds of surveillance experiments along the U.S.-Mexico border
  4. …I want when I visit a project) also consists of a small box in the bottom of the scren. Compare https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data (which is the top trending repo on Explore on GitHub!): > Much more consistent navigation - series of…
    comment by richardwhiuk · 2018-06-05 · in GitHub Alternatives
  5. …contains SQLite versions of every CSV published by the FiveThirtyEight crew to https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data I built a separate tool on top of pandas which can mass-convert CSVs to SQLite - https://github.com/simonw/csvs-to-sql
    comment by simonw · 2017-11-14 · in Show HN: Datasette – Create and publish an API for SQLite databases
  6. …are due this Friday. [1]: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-battle-for-riddler-n... [2]: https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/riddler-...
    comment by refrigerator · 2017-05-30 · in Winning the Battle for Riddler Nation; an Agent-Based Modelling Approach
  7. …which speaks to the expectation that academics be very mindful about confidentiality promises. [0] https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data [1] https://github.com/BuzzFeedNews/everything
    comment by danso · 2017-03-28 · in A researcher's response to people pointing out 150 errors in four of his papers
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    The Code Behind the Story: Dissecting Trump's Most Rabid Online Following
    story by mirceasoaica · 2017-03-24 · 0 comments
  9. The code is on GH [1] and the data is on BigQuery [2]. [1] https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/subreddi... [2] https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/table/fh-bigquery:reddit_c...
    comment by wyldfire · 2017-03-23 · in Dissecting Trump’s Most Rabid Online Following
  10. Sadly doesn't seem to be at https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data
    comment by ska · 2017-02-09 · in The Weird World of Expensive Wine (2016)
  11. …which lists every death or curse word in every Tarantino movie -- and browsed through the data: https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/blob/master/tarantin... I found it interesting that the author was willing to catalog each curse word…
    comment by jawns · 2016-06-01 · in FiveThirtyEight has a GitHub repo with story-related data and scripts
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    FiveThirtyEight has a GitHub repo with story-related data and scripts
    story by fnordo · 2016-06-01 · 35 comments
  13. https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data You're welcome to use their data and come up with your own analyses or just not read what they write. It's not like they're particularly influential, even if they are highly regarded. I'm also…
    comment by smt88 · 2016-05-13 · in Nate Silver Unloads on The New York Times
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    FiveThirtyEight Code and Data
    story by elkingtowa · 2014-05-21 · 0 comments