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FiveThirtyEight Index hits Internet Archive

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FiveThirtyEight Index hits Internet Archive
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FiveThirtyEight Index hits Internet Archive

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Journalist Ben Welsh launched a searchable index of over 22,000 FiveThirtyEight articles preserved on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. The project restores access to 15 years of data-driven reporting after the original site archive was taken offline by corporate owners.

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This preservation effort transforms a massive cultural loss into a structured dataset for the data journalism and AI research communities.

  • –Provides a comprehensive directory of 22,264 pages spanning 2008 to 2025
  • –Full dataset available as a CSV, making it a high-quality resource for RAG benchmarking and statistical analysis
  • –Leverages the Internet Archive as a backend, demonstrating the power of metadata-driven finding aids for web preservation
  • –Highlights the vulnerability of digital archives and the critical role of open-source tools in salvaging history
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DISCOVERED

1h ago

2026-05-20

PUBLISHED

4h ago

2026-05-20

RELEVANCE

6/ 10

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