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How Data Nerds Earned Their Seat at the Table

EPISODE · Mar 13, 2025 · 43 MIN

How Data Nerds Earned Their Seat at the Table

from Beyond the Polls with Henry Olsen · host Ricochet

Tragedy hit the once-marginalized psephological community last week when FiveThirtyEight closed shop. Henry hosts a celebration of life with two of its top contributors, Nathaniel Rakich and Geoffrey Skelley, to discuss the former outfit's inconceivable achievement of mainstreaming political data journalism. The trio digs into the explosive history of innovative election modeling and explores the lingering unknowns while looking to the future for a field tasked with telling the human story behind complicated quantifications.

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