We launched May2015 six months ago with high hopes and low expectations. The idea, pitched by me to the New Statesman in early 2014, was to be the dedicated site for all the data you might want on the election – from polls and predictions to daily analysis and regular features.
Jason Cowley and Helen Lewis, editor and deputy editor of the New Statesman, greenlit the project and gave Tom Monk and me free reign to experiment. Tom is the site’s head of data and development. He built everything you see on May2015, from the basic layout to our 45-year‘Poll of Polls’ tracker and custom-made election-forecasting machine. He didn’t just code the site, he’s responsible for all the maths behind our models.
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