AUSTIN, Texas — Data whiz and nerd demigod Nate Silver revealed a slew of details about his site FiveThirtyEight‘s new home on ESPN during a conversation with Grantland‘s Bill Simmons here at SXSW on Saturday afternoon
The biggest piece of news was that FiveThirtyEight will launch on March 17, just in time for college basketball’s annual March Madness tournament
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The basketball bonanza should be a perfect stage for FiveThirtyEight to show off its data-heavy approach to sports journalism after Silver surged to mainstream prominence during the 2012 presidential elections. But despite its ESPN parent, don’t expect too much sports from the site’s new incarnation Read more…
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