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A list of "happy data stories" or stories related to the arts...including: Pup Inflation: Good Dogs Getting Better. "Oh, but for a much purer example of silly data journalism that I remembered as soon as I hit send, earlier this year I scraped and analyzed the dog ratings from the Twitter account WeRateDogs." -David Henry Montgomery Sneakin' Toward the Weekend, Workers Fill Roadways "How about using hourly traffic counting stations to show how people are cheating out of the office earlier and earlier on Fridays? Mental note: we're four years away from that link being older than my incoming freshmen. Also, note the wonder at phones able to receive email being someday widely available in the story." -Matt Waite

Washington Post video discussing changes to Medicaid in the US. Republicans say they're not cutting Medicaid, they're increasing funding (just by less), others say this is a cut. The White House includes misleading and incomplete information in its video explaining Obamacare's failures.