I’ve been working with NPR to discuss a number of the week. This time it’s 34 — that’s the number of federal lawsuits filed against Volkswagen as of Friday stemming from the German carmak...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/34-lawsuits-have-been-filed-against-volkswagen/
I’ve been working with NPR to discuss a number of the week. This time, it’s 37 million — the number of users of Ashley Madison, an online dating site for married people looking for an affai...
I’ve been working with NPR to discuss a number of the week. This time it’s 280,000 — that’s the number of requests individuals in Europe have made to Google so far asking the company to r...
I’ve been working with NPR to discuss a number of the week. This time it’s 65 — that’s the number of days it took for a group social experiment known as “the button” to play out on th...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/it-took-65-days-but-finally-nobody-pushed-the-button/
I’ve been working with NPR to discuss a number of the week. This time it’s 32 million — that’s the number of people who get summoned each year for jury service in U.S. state courts. But f...
I’ve been working with NPR to discuss a number of the week. This time it’s 750,000 — the number of passengers who travel the busiest passenger rail route in the country, the Northeast Corri...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/750000-people-travel-the-northeast-corridor-every-day/
In a recent piece here at FiveThirtyEight, one of us (it was Ollie) wrote about CourtCast, an effort to predict Supreme Court decisions by algorithm. Analyzing only oral argument transcripts, Cou...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/is-courtcast-nina-totenbergs-deep-blue/
I’ve been working with NPR to discuss a number of the week. This time it’s 35,000 — that’s the number of asylum-seekers and migrants who have arrived by boat in southern Europe so far in...
I’ve been working with NPR to discuss a number of the week. This time it’s 115 million — that’s the total number of minutes that domestic flights were delayed last year. But passengers a...
I’ve been working with NPR’s Weekend Edition team to discuss a number of the week. This time it’s $14.3 billion — the total amount of child support awarded to custodial parents that went...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/parents-owe-14-3-billion-in-outstanding-child-support/
I’ve been working with NPR to discuss a number of the week. This time it’s 38 percent, the total share of American women who are earning more than their husbands. Unfortunately, it seems lik...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/38-percent-of-women-earn-more-than-their-husbands/
I’ve been working with NPR to discuss a number of the week. This time it’s 1,274 — that’s the total number of racist, Islamophobic and anti-semitic incidents reported in France in 2013. ...
I’ve been working with NPR to discuss a number of the week. This time it’s 44 — the percentage of Americans who said in December that they’ll probably make a new year’s resolution for ...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/only-44-percent-of-americans-made-new-years-resolutions/
You can also listen to the story on NPR’s website. I’ve been working with NPR to discuss a number of the week. This time it’s 52 — the number of countries the ride-sharing service Uber c...
This is Ctrl ←, our weekly data journalism roundup. You’ll find the most-read FiveThirtyEight articles of the past week, as well as gems we spotted elsewhere on the Internet. MOST READ 2014 N...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/ctrl-back-texas-terror-toilets/
This is Ctrl ←, our weekly data journalism roundup. You’ll find the most-read FiveThirtyEight articles of the past week, as well as gems we spotted elsewhere on the Internet (not surprisingly...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/ctrl-sticker-collectors-middle-america-and-gooooooooals/