fivethirtyeightindex.com catalogs 21,350 preserved fivethirtyeight.com pages from the Internet Archive, browsable by date and byline.
Key Takeaways
Coverage spans 2008-2025, starting with Nate Silver’s earliest election posts through the site’s final years.
558 total bylines indexed; top contributors include Nate Silver (4,966 pieces), Neil Paine (1,428), and Walt Hickey (1,210).
Browsable by year and author, making it a research tool for political data journalism history.
The index points to Internet Archive copies, not live fivethirtyeight.com URLs.
Hacker News Comment Review
ABC/Disney deleted the entire fivethirtyeight.com article archive from the live site, making the Internet Archive the only remaining source for this corpus.
Source code is available on GitHub under the palewire account for those who want to replicate or extend the indexing approach.
Notable Comments
@nl: confirms ABC deleted the full article archive, explaining why Internet Archive preservation matters here.
@ChocMontePy: links the GitHub repo at palewire/fivethirtyeightindex.com for builders who want the source.
