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Ryan Orban

Ryan Orban

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Fivethirtyeight

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  1. FiveThirtyEight Uber TLC FOIL Response Data

    FiveThirtyEight's public release of 6 months of Uber NYC pickup data obtained via FOIL request from the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission — one of the most significant data journalism transparency moments in ride-share's early history. Made possible by public records law applied to a tech company's regulatory filings.

  2. How Data Nerds Found a 131-Year-Old Sunken Treasure

    FiveThirtyEight on locating the SS Republic shipwreck using Bayesian search theory — the same framework used to find Air France 447 and guide military submarine searches. A clear demonstration that search is a statistics problem as much as a logistics one.

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