Poynter has helpfully written up a post based on a talk by Nate Silver, who runs the now ESPN-owned FiveThirtyEight blog, at the ONA conference last week. The pointers from Silver are aimed at other journalists working with numbers and data, and could help reporters avoid making mistakes when looking for stories within the figures.
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