How A High Schooler Scooped Everyone on the Iowa Poll(nytimes.com)
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How A High Schooler Scooped Everyone on the Iowa Poll
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/10/business/iowa-poll-student-scoop.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/10/business/iowa-poll-student-scoop.html
> How does Mr. Rawal do it? He correctly figures out the URL — the uniform resource locator, or full web address — that a graphic depicting the poll’s results appears at before their official release.
> “URL manipulation is what I do,” he said, “and I’ve been able to get really good at it because, with websites like CNN and Fox, all the file names follow a pattern.”