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   Flipboard (flipboard@flipboard.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 06:19:35 JST Flipboard

   FiveThirtyEight, the website started by Nate Silver in 2007, and which shot to fame after its model predicted the 2008 U.S. election results in 49 of 50 states, is closing. This is a result of company Disney making cuts across ABC News, which acquired FiveThirtyEight in 2018 (Silver departed to start his own Silver Bulletin Substack in 2023). Here's more from NiemanLabs about what this all means.

   https://flip.it/kj9UnO

   #News #Media #Elections #Polling #NateSilver #FiveThirtyEight #Journalism #DataJournalism

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     Sean Bala (seanbala@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 07-Mar-2025 07:46:03 JST Sean Bala

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     @Flipboard Really sad. I have fond (and not so fond) memories of refreshing the Presidential Election Forecasts incessantly during past elections.

     But in all seriousness, the 538 podcast was one of my always listen podcasts, especially the Thursday ones when they took a big picture view of things.