The Best And Worst Data Stories Of 2016

Walt Hickey, FiveThirtyEight: Science & Health
Thu, 12/29/2016 - 5:00am

It’s time once again to dole out FiveThirtyEight’s Data Awards, our annual (OK, we’ve done it once before) chance to honor those who did remarkably good stuff with data, to shame those who did remarkably bad stuff with data, and to acknowledge the key numbers that help describe what went down over the past year.

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