FiveThirtyEight’s forecast of the presidential election: state-by-state win probabilities, polls, and the many ways it could go.
I make charts and the tools that make charts. Currently a staff data visualization engineer at Netflix; before that, a decade in journalism as senior editor for data visualization at FiveThirtyEight, a reporter at Quartz, and a science writer at The New York Times. I also wrote Visual Storytelling with D3, an introduction to making charts for the web.
FiveThirtyEight’s forecast of the presidential election: state-by-state win probabilities, polls, and the many ways it could go.
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