@_schem

designer, sports fan, reality television enthusiast. free agent. formerly @fivethirtyeight/@politico/@forbes via @risd_gd. she/her

 san diego, ca
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and with my time at @Forbes wrapping up, that means I am once again a free agent! 👋 Open to *remote* freelance, full time or part time. editorial design, art direction, photo illustrations, etc. 💌 DM's open, contact info on my site! let's work together! emilyscherer.com/

emily scherer

emily scherer is a graphic designer and art director based in san diego, california, specializing in editorial design and photo illustrations.

emilyscherer.com
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me on my way to a gift shop:
Zenno Astronautics
@zennospaceJul 22
“I hope you’re gonna do magnets. Somebody out there, I hope, you’re all brilliant people, magnets. Do magnets, okay? I’ll tell you how to make money. Do magnets. You’re doing a lot of great stuff, do magnets. Because one thing we don’t have, but we’re getting close, but do magnets.”
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Nathaniel Rakich@baseballotMay 15
ABC News has now taken all FiveThirtyEight articles completely offline. They now redirect to abcnews dot com/politics. A needless erasure of thousands of pages of knowledge.
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icon! legend! current bracket leader among the 538 alum!
AP CorpComm
@AP_CorpCommApr 2
.@mayasweedler named @AP international elections manager. On our blog: buff.ly/lxWvavJ
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snoopy posters@snoomfies13 Sep 2025
Goodnight !
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how it feels to be both a fan of the hamster show and the pokemon go plane game this week.
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RT for a chance to win this SIGNED AM13 jersey 🐐
An image of a signed Alex Morgan San Diego Wave jersey

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A vintage baseball graphic ⚾️
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snoopy posters@snoomfies17 Jul 2025
Snoopy stained glass
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usually this stuff gets silly but this rocks
Portland Fire
@theportlandfire15 Jul 2025
Representing Portland. #PortlandFire #Reborn
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ABC News has now fully taken down the old 538 archives, including all interactive projects since 2014. Aside from erasing history this prevents access to publicly released data, including polls/models and all story data. Totally unacceptable and a real betrayal of the public
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#survivor
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Well, it’s been a lovely three years with 538, but I got laid off today along with the rest of the team. They took me on at the start of my career and taught me more than I ever could have imagined. What a privilege it was to work with such kind, and talented individuals.
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Not sure what's next for me. I'm going to take some time off but then will be looking for ways to stay in political journalism. In the meantime, please hire my fantastic colleagues, and stay in touch by signing up for my newsletter: baseballot.substack.com/subs…
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Incredibly sad to report that ABC News is indeed eliminating 538. I count myself incredibly lucky to have worked with such incredibly smart, kind people for 7 years. Thank you all for coming along for the ride.
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Holly Fuong@holly_fuong5 Mar 2025
I’ve spent almost 3 years at 538 (started Pi Day 2022!), and sad to say that I and the rest of the team have been laid off. It’s been such a journey. I’m grateful that I got to work with and learn from so many talented, kind, intelligent, and dedicated people in that time.
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Some good things do come to an end. 538/FiveThirtyEight came to an end today. My 6 years there were professionally and personally fulfilling beyond words. I want to thank all of my colleagues for making it an incredible experience and applaud all of their magnificent work.
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Alex Kimball@alexkimballCT6 Mar 2025
On Wednesday, Disney decided to shut down 538 and lay off the entire staff, including me. Working with this talented, kind, fun and funny crew for the past 2 1/2 years has been a great (if way too short) ride. Fivey Fox forever!
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538's open source API and all the other data we/they freely compiled and shared over the years drove so much important work across the industry. this is going to have pretty severe ripple effects. and it was often work done by 2 or 3 people.
Grace Panetta
@grace_panetta5 Mar 2025
This is such a catastrophic loss not only for election journalism but also as an election data resource — can't even count the number of times I've relied on 538's polling averages, redistricting trackers, etc for my reporting
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Mary Radcliffe@marywitha45 Mar 2025
For now, I've built a janky ass spreadsheet with the public data from the 538 polls page. I will do my best to keep it updated. More TK. docs.google.com/spreadsheets…

Polls

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Just a reminder that all the data FiveThirtyEight collected—polls, election results, and much more—is available for download (for now) on our GitHub page. github.com/fivethirtyeight

FiveThirtyEight

FiveThirtyEight has 30 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

github.com
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