The New York Times’ Needle lives: The newspaper’s popular election-prediction gauge made its return on Tuesday night — despite the ongoing strike called Monday by the union representing tech employees at the paper. The NY Times’ Needle, first introduced in 2016, estimates the final outcome of an election based on partial election results. In an article on its website, the Times said the Needle could have been a no-show given the strike. “Publishing the Needle live on election night relies on computer systems maintained by engineers across the company, including some who are currently on strike,” the paper said. There is a team of journalists reviewing the data that comes in and goes out of the model at all times on election night,” the paper says.
