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Which MLB Teams Overperform in Popularity?
Facebook maps of sports fandom, such as the one Facebook just published about Major League Baseball, are one of my favorite things:But as Will Oremus of Slate notes, this approach conceals important...
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Breaking Down the Young Billionaires Club
It’s Mark Zuckerberg’s 30th birthday Wednesday. If you’re not familiar with the name, you should be familiar with the company that’s earned him $26.6 billion dollars: Facebook. How common is it for...
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Our First Facebook Chat: Ask Nate Silver Almost Anything
Way, way back in January 2013, after a long and busy 2012 election season, FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver took questions in the social news site Reddit’s “Ask Me Anything” section.Well, we can...
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A Recap of Nate Silver’s Live Chat on Facebook
On Thursday, FiveThirtyEight hosted its first chat on Facebook with our editor in chief, Nate Silver. We’ve pulled in some of the most interesting questions below (content has been lightly edited for...
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Another (Much Higher) Count Of Homicides By Police
Last week, we wrote about the fact that the U.S. government doesn’t track how many people are killed by the police. The FBI tracks “justifiable” police homicides, which it reports to be about 400 per...
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Chat With Nate Silver And Harry Enten About The Midterm Elections
The election is eight days away, and early voting has begun in states across the country. FiveThirtyEight’s latest Senate forecast gives Republicans a 63 percent chance of winning the Senate, and that...
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You Asked About The Midterm Elections. We Answered.
On Tuesday, FiveThirtyEight hosted its second chat on Facebook, with our editor in chief, Nate Silver, and senior political writer Harry Enten. Nate and Harry discussed the 2014 midterm elections,...
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Federer, Djokovic Set To Play For First Time In A Tennis Hotbed: India
The top two men’s tennis players in the world are competing this weekend in India for the first time. What they’ll find there is one of their sport’s biggest fan bases.Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer...
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The Biggest Stories Of 2014? Now, Wait Just A Minute
End-of-year rankings of news stories are silly. They’re arbitrary. They’re soon forgotten.Many of them also are premature. The year had 22 days left when Facebook unveiled its 2014 recap. Twitter...
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This Algorithm Knows You Better Than Your Facebook Friends Do
Plenty of us saw the 2013 movie “Her” and wondered whether something like the customized personal assistant voiced by Scarlett Johansson could ever be possible. And then plenty of us moved on, never...
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Ask Nate Silver About The Super Bowl, Or 2016, Or Anything Else
Well, we’ve finally persuaded our editor in chief, Nate Silver, to officially join Facebook (you can follow him here), and there will be no easing him in. We’re throwing him to the wolves Wednesday,...
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We’re Hosting A Facebook Chat On The Economy
We’re expanding our Facebook chats. Nate Silver can’t always be in the hot seat, and we also want to zero in on specific fields of interest. First up? The economy. FiveThirtyEight’s chief economics...
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Nate Silver Talks With Sheryl Sandberg
I interviewed Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg on Tuesday about her new campaign #LeanInTogether, which emphasizes men’s role in improving gender equality. We also spoke about a range...
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Podcast: Your Cloud Self vs. You
“Your data is like your pet. You may own it, but it also has a life of its...
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Everyone’s Still Chasing The Yankees And Red Sox On Facebook And Twitter
The Kansas City Royals beat the New York Mets on Twitter as well as in the World Series.The Royals had about 479,000 followers on Twitter as of this morning, 15,000 more than the Mets had — even though...
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Not All Privacy Policies Are Created Equal
“Privacy policies actually tell you every way that [companies are] going to violate your privacy.” — Kashmir...
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Which MLB Teams Overperform in Popularity?
Facebook maps of sports fandom, such as the one Facebook just published about Major League Baseball, are one of my favorite things: But as Will Oremus of Slate notes, this approach conceals important...
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Breaking Down the Young Billionaires Club
It’s Mark Zuckerberg’s 30th birthday Wednesday. If you’re not familiar with the name, you should be familiar with the company that’s earned him $26.6 billion dollars: Facebook. How common is it for...
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Our First Facebook Chat: Ask Nate Silver Almost Anything
Way, way back in January 2013, after a long and busy 2012 election season, FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver took questions in the social news site Reddit’s “Ask Me Anything” section. Well, we can...
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