FiveThirtyEight Service
A FiveThirtyEight Service is a prediction service that is a news and data analysis platform that provides statistical insights on a variety of topics.
- Context:
- Example(s):
- FiveThirtyEight's election coverage,
- FiveThirtyEight's sports analysis,
- FiveThirtyEight's COVID-19 data tracking.
- …
- Counter-Example(s):
- CNN news coverage,
- ESPN sports analysis,
- Johns Hopkins COVID-19 Dashboard.
- See: Data Journalism, Statistical analysis, News aggregation, 2016 United States Presidential Election, Prediction Market, Poll Aggregator.
References
2020
- (Wikipedia, 2020) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FiveThirtyEight Retrieved:2020-3-4.
- FiveThirtyEight, sometimes rendered as 538, is a website that focuses on opinion poll analysis, politics, economics, and sports blogging. The website, which takes its name from the number of electors in the United States electoral college,[1] was founded on March 7, 2008 as a polling aggregation website with a blog created by analyst Nate Silver. In August 2010, the blog became a licensed feature of The New York Times online. It was renamed FiveThirtyEight: Nate Silver's Political Calculus.
In July 2013, ESPN acquired FiveThirtyEight, hiring Silver as editor-in-chief and a contributor for ESPN.com; the new publication launched on March 17, 2014. Since then, the FiveThirtyEight blog has covered a broad spectrum of subjects including politics, sports, science, economics and popular culture. In 2018, the operations were transferred to ESPN sister property ABC News.
During the presidential primaries and general election of 2008 the site compiled polling data through a unique methodology derived from Silver's experience in sabermetrics to "balance out the polls with comparative demographic data". [2] Silver weighted "each poll based on the pollster's historical track record, sample size, and recentness of the poll".
Since the 2008 election, the site has published articles — typically creating or analyzing statistical information—on a wide variety of topics in current politics and political news. These included a monthly update on the prospects for turnover in the Senate; federal economic policies; Congressional support for legislation; public support for health care reform, global warming legislation and LGBT rights; elections around the world; marijuana legalization; and numerous other topics. The site and its founder are best known for election forecasts, including the 2012 presidential election in which FiveThirtyEight correctly predicted the vote winner of all 50 states. On the eve of the 2016 election, the site's forecast gave Hillary Clinton a 71% chance of winning and Donald Trump a 29% chance. [3]
During its first five and a half years, FiveThirtyEight won numerous awards — both when it was an independent blog and when it was published by The New York Times. These included Bloggie Awards for Best Political Coverage in 2008 and Best Weblog about Politics in 2009 as well as Webbies for Best Political Blog in 2012 and 2013. While under the ownership of ESPN in 2016, FiveThirtyEight won the Data Journalism Website of the Year award from the Paris, France-based Global Editors Network.
The website's logo depicts a fox in reference to a phrase attributed to Archilochus: "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing".
- FiveThirtyEight, sometimes rendered as 538, is a website that focuses on opinion poll analysis, politics, economics, and sports blogging. The website, which takes its name from the number of electors in the United States electoral college,[1] was founded on March 7, 2008 as a polling aggregation website with a blog created by analyst Nate Silver. In August 2010, the blog became a licensed feature of The New York Times online. It was renamed FiveThirtyEight: Nate Silver's Political Calculus.
- ↑ Silver, Nate (August 7, 2008). "Frequently Asked Questions". FiveThirtyEight. Archived from the original on February 27, 201
- ↑ Andrew Romano (June 16, 2008). "Making His Pitches: Nate Silver, an all-star in the world of baseball stats, may be the political arena's next big draw". Newsweek.
- ↑ "Who Will Win the Presidency". FiveThirtyEight. November 8, 2017. retrieved November 8, 2018.