My favorite FiveThirtyEight stories

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/for-columnist-a-change-of-tone/

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/residents-of-struggling-cities-opt-to-skip-town/

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/reports-of-a-drop-in-childhood-obesity-are-overblown/

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/can-evolution-outrace-climate-change/

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/income-and-spending-are-up-thanks-obamacare/

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/fear-not-readers-we-have-rss-feeds/

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/a-belated-welcome-to-datalab/
http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/ocean-debris-and-the-search-for-malaysian-airlines-flight-370/

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/dont-sleep-on-villanova/

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On the surface, there isn’t much difference between FiveThirtyEight’s NCAA bracket and the consensus. Our most probable Final Four — Florida, Arizona, Michigan State and Louisville — are the same teams favored by the plurality of participants in ESPN’s Tournament Challenge. 

But there’s disagreement over the Villanova Wildcats, the No. 2 seed in the East region. Our model gives them a 21 percent chance of advancing to Arlington, which is barely lower than Virginia (23 percent) and Michigan State (24 percent). In contrast, just 9 percent of participants in ESPN’s Tournament Challenge picked Villanova from the East, as compared to 46 percent for Michigan State and 23 percent for Virginia.
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http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/a-march-madness-bracket-for-stat-heads/

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/how-to-eat-at-mcdonalds-when-youre-monumentally-broke/

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/this-winter-wasnt-the-coldest/

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-weather-forecasters-are-role-models/

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-people-bet-on-the-favorite-even-when-the-spread-favors-the-underdog/

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/disasters-cost-more-than-ever-but-not-because-of-climate-change/

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-statisticians-could-help-find-flight-370/

http://fivethirtyeight.com/interactives/march-madness-predictions/

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-the-fox-knows/

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/nate-silvers-ncaa-basketball-predictions/


http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/the-gators-bite-back/

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/our-ncaa-bracket-will-update-live-but-heres-where-you-can-find-our-old-data/

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/missing-up-to-4-million-workers/

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/fewer-kids-are-playing-football-but-mark-cuban-might-be-wrong-about-why/

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/history-suggests-it-might-not-get-better-for-democrats/

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/having-it-both-ways/

>> related: http://www.nationaljournal.com/hotline-on-call/democrats-to-nate-silver-you-re-wrong-20140324

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/fivethirtyeight-senate-forecast/