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- Related: Disney erased FiveThirtyEightby 7777777phil
- FWIW, the site now indexes 13,000 graphics and 3,000 illustrations, which I clawed out of the Wayback Machine's HTML and preserved separately in an archive.org collection.
https://fivethirtyeightindex.com/graphics/ https://fivethirtyeightindex.com/illustrations/
The archive.org backend is at https://archive.org/details/fivethirtyeight-collection and will almost certainly outlive my site.
by palewire - I'm not a soccer guy, but I still think the piece on Lionel Messi was awesome
https://web.archive.org/web/20140701122958/http://fivethirty...
by arlattimore - This is because whoever owns Fivethirtyeight now (ABC?) deleted the whole archive of articles on the site.by nl
- I am certainly missing a lot of nuance here, but it seems to me Nate Silver managed to have his cake and eat it too. He surely got good money for selling FiveThirtyEight, and now that the buyer has erased the product, Nate can get back a huge chunk of its readers since he offers very similar analyses on his personal site. Sure, natesilver.net has less brand recognition than fivethirtyeight.com, but it's still decently well-known and can only go up from here.by alberto-m
- Unfortunately most of the most important visualizations are broken in the archived version. Including the gun deaths visualization and I think the P-hacking interactive
https://web.archive.org/web/20230205124354/https://fivethirt...
It's kinda sad to know no one else will get to experience those interactive visualizations. Though its nice to see the approval comparison page still works
https://web.archive.org/web/20241031232233/https://projects....
by culi - Couldn't figure out why archiving FTE aricles matters, but a quick search yields:
> Thousands of FiveThirtyEight articles seemingly vanish from the internet
https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/thousands-of-five...
And discussions here on hn:
ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152553
Disney erased FiveThirtyEight (article by Nate himself) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197703
by nomilk - For any, like myself, wondering "Who is Ben Welsh" ?
~ https://palewi.re/who-is-ben-welsh/Hello. My name is Ben Welsh. I'm an Iowan living in New York City. I am a reporter, an editor and a computer programmer. My job is to use those skills, together, to find and tell stories. I work at Reuters, the world's largest multimedia news provider, where I founded the organization's News Applications Desk. In that role, I lead the development of dashboards, databases and automated systems that benefit clients, inform readers, empower reporters and serve the public interest. [...]by defrost