Plenty, Alberto Cairo writes for Nieman Lab: "At first, the current popularity of the new wave of data journalism seemed to be a good antidote to the epidemic of hardball punditry and tomfriedmanism that has plagued the news for ages," Cairo writes, before accusing Vox and FIveThirtyEight of sins such as "Gladwellism — deriving grand theories from a handful of undersubstantiated studies" and misuse of proxy variables. More from Derrick Harris.
