fivethirtyeight/data resource
Data and code behind the articles and graphics at FiveThirtyEight observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
36/100
- Activity 8
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4552
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 554
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
17432 stars · 11078 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
The official repository of datasets and code behind FiveThirtyEight's articles and graphics, published under CC-BY-4.0 (data) and MIT (code). It includes an index of published datasets covering politics, sports, economics, and culture.
Use cases
- find datasets for data science practice projects
- reproduce FiveThirtyEight article analyses
- teach statistics and data visualization with real-world data
- build visualizations from published polling and forecast data
- check the methodology behind FiveThirtyEight stories
When to choose
- you want well-documented, cleanly formatted real-world datasets
- you need example data for teaching or learning data analysis
- you want to verify or extend FiveThirtyEight's published analyses
When to avoid
- you need up-to-date sports forecasts, which stopped updating in June 2023
- you need a live data API rather than static CSV files
- you need guaranteed ongoing dataset updates
Facets
dataset · maturity maintenance
data-science data-visualization analytics data-science data-visualization analytics cross-platform open-data journalism csv five-thirty-eight statistics public-datasets
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data · fetched 2026-08-28 · df6cc1332e12
- homepage: https://data.fivethirtyeight.com/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 5ebeb0b72523
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| fivethirtyeight/data | main | 36 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="fivethirtyeight/data")
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