A data journalism round-up from the Winter Olympics
With the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang in full flow, we skate our way through the best examples of data journalism that have caught Interhacktives’ eye over the past week.
FiveThirtyEight
Interview with FiveThirtyEight’s Walter Hickey
Walter Hickey is part of the data super-group working on the re-launched FiveThirtyEight. Joe Hall asks if it’s really possible to use numbers to explore our favourite films and restaurants.
Carl Bialik interview: ‘Any data set has eureka potential’
We spoke with Carl Bialik, a writer for Nate Silver‘s new website FiveThirtyEight, and formerly The Numbers Guy for WSJ.