Jody Avirgan (145 entries)

Listen To Our Totally Subjective 2016 Presidential Odds
Listen To ‘Hot Takedown,’ Our Sports Podcast Pilot
Listen To Our Totally Subjective 2016 Presidential Odds For Early February 2015
Listen To Our Conversation With The Microbe Map Man
Listen To How Walt Hickey And Neil Paine Tried To Break Madden
We Get Schooled In Advanced Volleyball Metrics
Introducing Hot Takedown, FiveThirtyEight’s First Podcast
Hot Takedown for March 17, 2015: Bracketology, NFL Free Agency, and Chris Borland
Listen To Our Totally Subjective Presidential Odds For March 2015
Hot Takedown for March 24, 2015: Vintage Michigan State, Fixing The Women’s Tournament, Trading Durant
Hot Takedown: An Emergency Discussion About Kentucky’s Loss, Live From Our Hotel Room
Can YOU Fix The NBA Draft?
Is CourtCast Nina Totenberg’s Own Deep Blue?
The 6,493 Best Ideas To Prevent Tanking In The NBA
Anatomy Of A Podcast Ad
‘Adam Silver Rides A Bear’ And Five Other Perfect Ideas For Fixing The NBA Lottery
Video: It’s Election Day In The U.K.
How To Stop NBA Tanking: Tie Your Fate To Another Team’s Record
Podcast: Nadal’s Decline, Every NBA Team Ranked, And Whether Stars Matter
Here’s What Adam Silver Thinks About Our Proposal To Fix The NBA Draft
Big Data Says You And A.J. Jacobs Are Cousins
Introducing Our Newest Podcast: What's The Point
Introducing Our Newest Podcast: What’s The Point
Podcast: Neil DeGrasse Tyson On Big Data, Race, And Why Work-Life Balance Is Overrated
Podcast: Neil DeGrasse Tyson On Big Data, Race, And Why Work-Life Balance Is Overrated
Podcast: How Data Can Solve Our Most Vexing Transportation Problems
Podcast: How Many People Regret Their Tattoo?
Podcast: How Many People Regret Their Tattoo?
Podcast: Is It Possible To Have TMI During A Visit To The Doctor?
Podcast: The Alchemy Behind Book Publishing
Podcast: The Alchemy Behind Book Publishing
Who Would You Invite To The First Republican Debate?
Who Would You Invite To The First Republican Debate?
Podcast: The Algorithm Behind Your Browser
Podcast: The Algorithm Behind Your Browser
800 Of You Told Us Which Candidates Fox News Should Invite To The GOP Debate
800 Of You Told Us Which Candidates Fox News Should Invite To The GOP Debate
Podcast: Totally Subjective Presidential Odds (Early August Edition)
Podcast: Totally Subjective Presidential Odds (Early August Edition)
Podcast: When Data Tells Us To Lock Someone Up
Podcast: When Data Tells Us To Lock Someone Up
FiveThirtyEight Is Hiring Fall Interns
FiveThirtyEight Is Hiring Fall Interns
Podcast: We Still Rely On Volunteers To Tally The Victims Of Police Violence
Podcast: The Military’s Drone Obsession Isn’t Making It Better
Podcast: The Military’s Drone Obsession Isn’t Making It Better
Podcast: Bad Incentives Are Blocking Better Science
Podcast: Bad Incentives Are Blocking Better Science
Podcast: How BuzzFeed Made #TheDress Go Viral
Podcast: How BuzzFeed Made #TheDress Go Viral
Madden Challenge: Can You Win The Super Bowl With This Dude At QB?
Podcast: When Your Boss Is Big Brother
Podcast: When Your Boss Is Big Brother
Podcast: The Guy Who Predicts Whether A Movie Will Bomb, Months Before It’s Made
Podcast: The Guy Who Predicts Whether A Movie Will Bomb, Months Before It’s Made
Podcast: Everyone Is Your Cousin
Podcast: Everyone Is Your Cousin
A Lazy, Out-Of-Shape Amateur Won Two More Super Bowls Than Tony Romo
Podcast: Your Cloud Self vs. You
Podcast: Your Cloud Self vs. You
Podcast: Wall Street’s Just One Big Bloomberg Chat
Podcast: Wall Street’s Just One Big Bloomberg Chat
Big Data Is Saving This Little Bird
Rating Subjective Experiences Is Hard, But Fandango Is Really Bad At It
Rating Subjective Experiences Is Hard, But Fandango Is Really Bad At It
Why The Bronx Really Burned
Why The Bronx Really Burned
We Made A Friend: FiveThirtyEight And ‘On The Media’ Join Forces
We Made A Friend: FiveThirtyEight And ‘On The Media’ Join Forces
Doctors Without Borders Fights Outbreaks With New Tech And Old-Fashioned Paper
The Canadian Census Matters (Really)
The Canadian Census Matters (Really)
What Polls Can’t Tell Us About Faith In America
A Thanksgiving Travel Companion From What’s The Point
The Dream World Of ‘The Good Dinosaur’ Is Based On USGS Surveys
DNA Evidence Has A Dark Side
A Plea For More Frisbee Data From A U.S. Ultimate Coach
We’re Hiring A Summer Intern For Podcasts And Video
Can You Taste The Algorithm In This Arugula?
A History Of Data In American Politics (Part 1): William Jennings Bryan To Barack Obama
A History Of Data In American Politics (Part 2): Obama 2008 To The Present
Introducing FiveThirtyEight’s New Elections Podcast
Bad Data — And Worse Decisions — Poisoned Flint
Why The Dean Scream Sounded So Different On TV
Real-Time Data Could Corrupt Big-Time Sports
Elections Podcast: The New Hampshire Results
Not All Privacy Policies Are Created Equal
Talking To The Terriers At The Westminster Dog Show
Can Math Predict The Oscars? A Debate.
What We Can Learn About Drone Strikes From 10 Million Yemeni Cell Phones
Dear Data And FiveThirtyEight Want You To Visualize Your Podcast Habits
Doug Rushkoff Says Companies Should Stop Growing
He Called It America’s Worst Place To Live. Now He’s Moving There.
Take A Trip Through 174 Years Of Classical Music
The FiveThirtyEight Elections Podcast Is Coming To D.C. — Live!
FiveThirtyEight Roundtable: How Scientific Scandal Can Become Scientific Progress
The Map That May Unmask Banksy
Are Algorithms Ruining How We Discover Music?
A Data Detective Story: Did A British Nurse Kill His Patients?
Turns Out, Running A Baseball Team Is Hard
Elections Podcast: Should Congressional Republicans Be Worried About Trump?
Elections Podcast: The General Election Polls Tighten
Defeat The Spotify Algorithm With All Your Weird Emotions
FiveThirtyEight’s Elections Podcast Is Coming To California!
This Scientist Stung Himself With Dozens Of Insects Because No One Else Would
Philadelphia Is Trying To Connect With Its Least-Heard Residents
The Gap Between What You Like And What You Say You Like
How Much To Access Government Data On Immigration? Only $173,775
A History Of Data In American Politics (Part 3): The 2016 Primaries
New Podcast Jobs At ESPN: “30 for 30” And FiveThirtyEight
Pence Differs On Trump’s Core Issues
Emergency Podcast! The RNC Boos Ted Cruz
How Long It Takes To Walk From The RNC’s Protest Areas To The Convention
How GOP Delegates Are Reacting To Cruz’s Speech
Late Night RNC Podcast: Donald Trump’s Law And Order
Seven Conversations About Preventing Gun Deaths
So Far, Protest Crowds At The Democratic Convention Are Dwarfing Those In Cleveland
Charles Duhigg: Data Can Help Us Change, But We Still Have To Do The Hard Work
A History Of Data In American Politics (Part 4): A Trump Data Memo
Count One More Gold For The U.S. — In Math
The FiveThirtyEight Elections Podcast Is Doing Some Live Shows This Fall
Significant Digits for Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Internet Tracking Has Moved Beyond Cookies
Americans Feel Well-Informed, Which May Be The Problem
Who’s Accountable When An Algorithm Makes A Bad Decision?
We’re Hiring A Spring 2017 Intern For Podcasts And Video
Politics Podcast: What Would You Change About American Democracy?
Adam Conover Explains Everything About ‘Adam Ruins Everything’
55 Conversations Later, Here’s What Our Data-And-Society Podcast Taught Me
A Cheaper Christmas Tree May Be Just Around The Corner
We Asked You To Visualize Your Podcast Listening And, Wow, Did You Deliver
Emergency Health Care Podcast: Live From Boise
Politics Podcast: Who Makes Up The Base?
Politics Podcast: How Trump Talks About Race
Politics Podcast: The Alabama Election Is Here
Politics Podcast: The Three-Day Shutdown
Politics Podcast: What The Cambridge Analytica Story Is Really About
Significant Digits For Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Politics Podcast: Who Are Democrats Nominating?
Politics Podcast: Democrats Are Competing Everywhere
Politics Podcast: The Democrats And The Trump Impeachment Question
Politics Podcast: Inside The Trump Administration
Politics Podcast: Kavanaugh’s Confirmation Could Be In Trouble
Politics Podcast: A Post-Midterms 2020 Draft … Live!
Politics Podcast: Should Democrats Play Dirty?