Disney's recent closure of FiveThirtyEight included layoffs for its staff and the discontinuation of the site itself. Notably, archives previously accessible through the site are now redirected to an outdated ABC News politics page, effectively erasing valuable work. Although the FiveThirtyEight GitHub page remains available, providing a repository of datasets, it has not seen updates in years. Users are encouraged to download useful data for educational content or personal projects before the GitHub page becomes unavailable as well.
Last week, Disney laid off FiveThirtyEight employees and announced the site would cease operations. The end for the site and archives was also coming quickly.
Links to past FiveThirtyEight projects loaded a usable and readable archive. Now you just get redirected to an outdated ABC News politics page.
That's a lot of solid work that just poofed out of existence. For now, the FiveThirtyEight GitHub page is still up.
While it hasn't been updated in a few years since the restructuring, the datasets in particular might be useful to download for teaching purposes.
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