Articles tagged: data analysis

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   Lessons from a data project: Investigating Toronto’s multimillion-dollar program to improve road safety

   By Inori Roy

   Posted on January 10, 2023

   Poor record-keeping foiled our FOIA plans. Here’s what we learned through the simple, tedious process of creating data by hand.

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   Small teams & solo work: Using a QA process to build confidence in your data stories

   By Kae Petrin

   Posted on December 7, 2022

   Four steps you can take to catch errors earlier and bulletproof your work, even if you don’t have a colleague to help out.

3. Q&As and takeaways: Reporting on corporate landlords

   By Tyler Dukes

   Posted on May 24, 2022

   Highlights from a recent community call conversation.

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   COVID-19 story recipe: Analyzing disparate impact based on race, poverty, and vulnerability in your area

   By Hannah Recht

   Posted on May 8, 2020

   As new COVID-19 hot spots popped up across the country and states began to release data by race and ethnicity, the team at Kaiser Health News reported on why the illness was striking Black, Hispanic, and Native Americans so intensely. Here’s how you can use the data to report on your community.

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   A comparison of four major COVID-19 data sources

   By Irena Fischer-Hwang and Justin Mayo

   Posted on May 5, 2020

   A variety of datasets can help journalists track the spread of COVID-19. But which should you rely on? What’s the difference between them? What are the advantages and disadvantages to each? This guide will walk you through four major COVID-19 data sources: Johns Hopkins University, COVID Tracking Project, USAFacts, and The New York Times.

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   COVID-19 story recipe: Using AHA data to analyze hospital bed capacity

   By Dilcia Mercedes

   Posted on April 29, 2020

   American Hospital Association data can help you estimate the total number of beds your region could need to treat patients in a COVID-19 outbreak, and how many beds are likely to be available based on expected usage patterns. Here’s how you can use the data to report on your community.

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   COVID-19 story recipe: Identifying communities at risk from the pandemic and its economic fallout

   By Jayme Fraser

   Posted on April 24, 2020

   Using data from the CDC and the federal Health Resources & Services Administration, USA Today found counties that are both medically underserved and vulnerable to disasters—places where residents would be most at risk of losing access to health care during the COVID-19 outbreak. Here’s how you can use the data to report on your community.

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   How to make sense of all the COVID-19 datasets right now

   By Sinduja Rangarajan

   Posted on April 21, 2020

   There are a lot of COVID-19 datasets available, and it can be hard to know how they differ and which ones are most trustworthy. Here’s an overview of current datasets that journalists can rely on for stories.

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   COVID-19 story recipe: How to see what stocks members of Congress are dumping (or buying)

   By Derek Willis

   Posted on April 17, 2020

   ProPublica used the Senate’s financial disclosures to find that not long after Sen. Richard Burr offered a positive assessment in public of the country’s ability to handle the coronavirus, he sold hundreds of thousands of (and potentially up to $1.7 million) dollars in stocks, a highly unusual series of trades for him. Here’s how you can reproduce the story for your community.

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    COVID-19 story recipe: How to analyze your region’s hospital capacity

    By Erin Petenko

    Posted on April 2, 2020

    VTDigger used Harvard Global Health Institute data to look into local hospitals’ capacity for handling an outbreak. Here’s how you can reproduce the story for your community.

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    COVID-19 story recipe: Analyzing nursing home data for infection-control problems

    By Mike Stucka

    Posted on March 16, 2020

    A USA Today analysis found that three-quarters of nursing homes have been cited for infection-control problems in recent years. Here’s how you can reproduce the story for your community.

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    Free the Files API + Q&A with Al Shaw

    By Erin Kissane and Al Shaw

    Posted on October 16, 2012

    ProPublica’s interactive data-analysis project gets an API, and Al Shaw answers our development questions about the making of Free the Files.