Data Journalism – The Politic

An Interview with Andrew Flowers, Quantitative Editor at FiveThirtyEight

Matthew GuidoSeptember 5, 2015

I definitely wanted to write for a popular audience, I just didn’t know it would be from the nitty-gritty world of journalism rather than the “Ivory Tower high-horse” position, so to speak. We like to say data journalism is social science on deadline. So I think I’ve kind of melded these two worlds.

An Interview with Harry Enten, FiveThirtyEight’s Senior Political Analyst

Rohit GoyalAugust 10, 2015August 13, 2015

”Being at FiveThirtyEight allows me to expound and explain what I’m doing statistically. We also have very smart people in the room– statistically smart people. Instead of there being one or two of those, there’s seven or eight or nine of them. If I want to ask a question or bounce an idea off of someone, it’s very rare that I won’t be able to have the opportunity to do that.