fivethirtyeightdata is an add-on R data package to the fivethirtyeight package that contains user-contributed vignettes/ and 19 datasets that could not be included in fivethirtyeight due to CRAN package size restrictions:

Item Title
castle_solutions Riddler Nation - Castles Puzzle
castle_solutions_2 Riddler Nation - Castles Puzzle 2
castle_solutions_3 Riddler Nation - Castles Puzzle Final
comic_characters Comic Books Are Still Made By Men, For Men And About Men
goose The Save Ruined Relief Pitching. The Goose Egg Can Fix It.
house_district_forecast 2018 House Forecast
mayweather_mcgregor_tweets Mayweather Vs McGregor Tweets
mlb_elo MLB Elo
nba_all_elo The Complete History Of The NBA
nba_carmelo The Complete History Of The NBA 2017-18 NBA Predictions
nba_elo NBA Elo Ratings
nfl_elo The Complete History Of The NFL 2017 NFL Predictions
quasi_winshares The Twins’ Magical Run Will Likely Go Through The Yankees. (Because Of Course.)
raptor_by_player NBA Raptor
raptor_by_team NBA Raptor
ratings An Inconvenient Sequel
senators Senator Dataset
spi_matches Match-by-match SPI ratings and forecasts back to 2016
twitter_presidents The Worst Tweeter in Politics Isn’t Trump

The released version of this package is hosted using a drat repository made using the the drat package.

For more on using these data, see the GitHub repository for the fivethirtyeight package.

Usage

To load the senators dataset for example run:

library(fivethirtyeight)
library(fivethirtyeightdata)
senators