{"id":2233,"date":"2014-03-28T08:07:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T08:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=2233"},"modified":"2014-04-05T08:31:10","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T08:31:10","slug":"fivethirtyeight-a-place-for-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/fivethirtyeight-a-place-for-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"FiveThirtyEight &#8211; a place for thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nate Silver, famous for accurate political predictions, and his team relaunched <a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\">fivethirtyeight.com<\/a>, a website focussed on mining data and interpreting it, under ESPN sponsorship on St Paddy&#8217;s day.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\">FiveThirtyEight.com<\/a> covers a range of current issues from economics to science to sports in a thoughtful, useful way.\u00a0 Though a US focus predominates, that&#8217;s OK in a world where the US burps and everyone smells what was for lunch.<\/p>\n<p>For example, have a look at their <a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/three-rules-to-make-sure-economic-data-arent-bunk\/\">three rules for data scepticism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FiveThirtyEight\">FiveThirtyEight<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nate Silver, famous for accurate political predictions, and his team relaunched fivethirtyeight.com, a website focussed on mining data and interpreting it, under ESPN sponsorship on St Paddy&#8217;s day.\u00a0\u00a0 FiveThirtyEight.com covers a range of current issues from economics to science to sports in a thoughtful, useful way.\u00a0 Though a US focus predominates, that&#8217;s OK in a &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/fivethirtyeight-a-place-for-thinking\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FiveThirtyEight &#8211; a place for thinking<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mediaandgatherings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-A1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2235,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233\/revisions\/2235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}