The Upshot is a website published by The New York Times which spreads articles combining data visualization with conventional journalistic analysis of news.
[1][2] Steve Duenes, a graphics director at the New York Times, won a newsroom contest by coming up with the name "The Upshot".
[3] The site started with fifteen full-time staff, including founding editor David Leonhardt.
[1][4] However, Leonhardt stated in an April 2014 interview that The Upshot was not intended to replace Silver.
[5] In 2014, The Upshot produced two of the twenty most-read stories on the Times' website, and it was responsible for 5% of the paper's web traffic in October of that year.