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Recode / Peter Kafka / Sep 27, 2018
“Outlets like FiveThirtyEight…which analyze existing data sets and make predictions about topics ranging from political elections to Major League Baseball. ‘That’s totally legitimate and awesome work,’ Angwin said, but once the new site launches in early 2019 she and her team will be proactively building new data sets — something she and her co-founder Jeff Larson previously did at ProPublica — in the interest of investigative journalism.” (We wrote about The Markup here.) LO
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