What's The Point

By FiveThirtyEight, 538, ESPN, Jody Avirgan

A show about our data age. Each week, Jody Avirgan brings you stories and interviews on how data is changing lives.... more

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How many episodes does What's The Point have?

The podcast currently has 112 episodes available.

What's The Point episodes:

July 14, 2016 .54.2 - Stopping Gun Deaths In New Orleans
Our series - a mini-interview every day for a week - on the guns project continues with reporter Ben Casselman. See the full project fivethirtyeight.com/gundeaths

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14min
July 13, 2016 .54.1 - A Week Of Conversations About Gun Deaths
Every day for a week, we'll discuss the new FiveThirtyEight project on gun deaths in America. Today, editor Simone Landon frames the issue. www.fivethirtyeight.com/gun-deaths

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14min
July 07, 2016 .53 Mapping Police Violence
A rerun of a conversation with Samuel Sinyangwe describing why data on police shootings is so murky. Samuel runs mappingpoliceviolence.org and checkthepolice.org

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20min
June 30, 2016 .52 A History Of Political Data (Part 3)
Daniel Kreiss of UNC is back to discuss what we've learned from the 2016 primaries. fivethirtyeight.com/podcasts

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40min
June 23, 2016 .51 The $173,775 Data Set
David Yanofsky is suing the U.S. government for immigration data after they wanted to charge him $173,775 for it. fivethirtyeight.com/podcasts

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25min
June 16, 2016 .50 How To Hate-Like
Tom Vanderbilt is accounting for taste. More at fivethirtyeight.com/podcasts

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43min
June 10, 2016 .49 Hearing Philly
A new project is testing different polling techniques to get input from Philadelphians about their civic lives. fivethirtyeight.com/podcasts

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29min
June 02, 2016 .48 The Schmidt Sting Pain Index
Entomologist Justin Schmidt is developing a way to measure painful insect stings - by stinging himself with as many creatures as possible.

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39min
May 26, 2016 .47 Rivers Cuomo Has Spreadsheets (from Song Exploder)
Song Exploder talks with Rivers Cuomo of Weezer about his very nerdy songwriting style. Plus, we're collecting your playlists at DefeatedJoy.com

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22min
May 19, 2016 .46 Gut Week, Gut Strong
It's Gut Week at FiveThirtyEight. Chad Matlin, filling in for Jody (who's on jury duty) discusses the world of pro- and psycho-biotics. fivethirtyeight.com/podcasts

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28min

FAQs about What's The Point:

How many episodes does What's The Point have?

The podcast currently has 112 episodes available.