Articles tagged: census

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   Every Working Journalist in the U.S. Needs to Understand the 2020 Census. We’ll Help You Host a Workshop On It.

   By Joe Amditis

   Posted on September 24, 2019

   The Center for Cooperative Media has put together a guide to help you organize a 2020 Census workshop for local journalists.

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   Forms Matter

   By Lena Groeger

   Posted on November 1, 2017

   Whether you’re filling out a form or building it yourself, you should be aware that decisions about how to design a form have all kinds of hidden consequences. How you ask a question, the order of questions, the wording and format of the questions, even whether a question is included at all—all affect the final result.

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   How I Investigated Uber Surge Pricing in D.C.

   By Jennifer A. Stark

   Posted on April 18, 2016

   As part of my research with the Tow Center, I investigated the geographical and demographic data around how Uber works in D.C., to find out if its wait times varied by neighborhood (and, as a result, by demographic). Here’s how I did it.

4. Inside the Wall Street Journal’s Prediction Calculator

   By Martin Burch

   Posted on January 8, 2016

   We made an interactive based on a government agency’s method of predicting a person’s race and ethnicity based solely on their name and address. The response from our readers was, fittingly, a little unpredictable.

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   Anatomy of the “Living Apart” map

   By Jeff Larson and Erika Owens

   Posted on December 10, 2012

   Last month, ProPublica launched the Living Apart series with an investigation into the Fair Housing Act of 1968 and an interactive map showing the migration of African Americans from 1890-2010.