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comma-survey does not contain data in article #120

Closed Neato-Nick closed 1 year ago

Neato-Nick commented 6 years ago

In the comma survey data set (https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/comma-survey), the CSV with data does not contain the columns the story specifies. The story (https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/elitist-superfluous-or-popular-we-polled-americans-on-the-oxford-comma/) specifically shows a graph with how well people rated their own grammar, separated by if people used an Oxford comma. This graph cannot be recreated with the provided data.

emline commented 6 years ago

Looks like column with the question asking to rate own grammar is missing. If that was included, it looks like you can recreate the graph in the story. The second column that asks which sentence is preferred -- with or without Oxford comma -- appears to act as the preference filter in the chart.

Neato-Nick commented 6 years ago

Yep. I have been playing with the data and successfully made graphs showing how much people cared about the comma based on whether or not they used it, shown a correlation between caring about comma and caring about data, and a couple other things. It's just an issue that the grammar rating column is missing. Is this still housed somewhere, even though it's been almost 4 years?

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Looks like column with the question asking to rate own grammar is missing. If that was included, it looks like you can recreate the graph in the story. The second column that asks which sentence is preferred -- with or without Oxford comma -- appears to act as the preference filter in the chart.

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jayb commented 1 year ago

Sorry, but this data has been lost to time.