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Gus Wezerek

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  • Fast Company

Past articles by Gus:

Which 2020 Candidates Have The Most In Common

The 2020 Democratic presidential candidates use Twitter like an earlier generation of politicians may have used a soapbox: to announce policy plans, solicit don… → Read More

Where The Algorithms Can’t Find You

A man wearing a red flannel shirt and brown suspenders walks into a clearing. His beard is well kempt, the same off-white as the snowmelt behind him. “Good afte… → Read More

How Good Are FiveThirtyEight Forecasts?

We checked all of our sports and election predictions since 2008. They’re reliable. → Read More

2019 MLB Predictions

FiveThirtyEight's MLB forecast uses a pitcher-adjusted Elo model to project the winner of every game and the chances that each team will win the World Series. → Read More

25 Years Of Super Bowl Halftime Show Lineups, Ranked

We looked at the success of every featured artist since 1993. → Read More

How Pete Buttigieg Could Win The 2020 Democratic Nomination

You’d be forgiven for not knowing, or at least not knowing how to pronounce, Pete Buttigieg’s last name (it’s boot-uh-judge). His political experience to date i… → Read More

Why Bipartisanship Doesn’t Always Pay, In Three Charts

Over the years, members of Congress who broke ranks with their party have tended to find more electoral success — in other words, it can pay to be a maverick. … → Read More

How The Red Sox And Dodgers Made It To The World Series, In One Chart

We look back at the paths to the championship taken by Boston and Los Angeles. → Read More

2018 World Cup Predictions

FiveThirtyEight's World Cup forecasting model calculates each team's chances of winning each match and reaching each round. → Read More

Nearly Half The Kentucky Derby Field Is Racing Against A Half-Brother

In every Kentucky Derby, breeding is the silent, invisible force that can play a huge role in deciding the outcome of the race. What’s unusual about the 2018 Kentucky Derby is the sameness of the breeding. → Read More

This Year’s Boston Marathon Was Sloooooowww

For more than 20 years, the first man and woman across the Boston Marathon finish line have almost always been athletes from Kenya or Ethiopia. But it was an Am… → Read More

2018 MLB Predictions

FiveThirtyEight's MLB forecast uses a pitcher-adjusted Elo model to project the winner of every game and the chances that each team will win the World Series. → Read More

The Last 60 Years Of Oscar Nominations In One Chart

John Williams -- the composer behind “Star Wars,” “Jaws,” “Jurassic Park” and almost any other movie theme that you can hum to yourself from memory -- received his 51st Oscar nomination this year. Think about that. Williams has two Academy Award nominations for every year Timothée Chalamet (nominated for best actor for “Call Me by Your Name”) has been alive -- and then some. → Read More

What’s Your Winter Olympics Sport?

Are you a figure skater or more of a bobsled-type? Take our quiz to find the best Winter Olympic sport for you. → Read More

20 Years Of Congress’s Budget Procrastination, In One Chart

Every year, Congress faces an Oct. 1 deadline to pass a spending package that will pay for our government through the following fiscal year. And every year sinc… → Read More

Creating The Next Bechdel Test

We pitted 50 movies against 12 new ways of measuring Hollywood’s gender imbalance. → Read More

Which World Cup Team Should You Root For?

With the U.S. out of the running, take our quiz to find the best World Cup team for you. → Read More

Most GOP Senators Kept Mum About The Mueller Indictments

We were able to find comments from just 15 of the 52 GOP senators. → Read More

The Worst Tweeter In Politics Isn’t Trump

Three things can happen to a tweet once you send it into the world: It can get retweeted, it can get liked, and it can get replied to. Any of these can be nice,… → Read More

Is Your D&D Character Rare?

We got a peek at what kind of characters everyone is building, and a lot of players are sticking close to reality. → Read More