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COVID-19 story recipe: Analyzing disparate impact based on race, poverty, and vulnerability in your area
By Hannah Recht
Posted onAs 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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How We Built a Database from Thousands of Police Reports
By MaryJo Webster
Posted onHow we built our massive analysis of sexual assault cases in Minnesota, with tools that anyone on our team could use.
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How We Made “Sending Even More Immigrants to Prison”
By Yolanda Martinez
Posted onA data project that shows how the U.S. government has prioritized immigration deterrence and criminalization.
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How We Found New Patterns in LA’s Homeless Arrest Data
By Christine Zhang
Posted onHow we got the numbers on arrests of the homeless in LA, how we vetted the numbers, and, most importantly, how we found the story behind—and beyond—the numbers.
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What I Learned Recreating One Chart Using 24 Tools
By Lisa Charlotte Rost
Posted onLessons learned from trying to create one chart with as many applications, libraries, and programming languages as possible.
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Investigating 13,000 “Good” Nursing Homes in Germany
By Sandhya Kambhampati
Posted onWe built a web platform to help readers make better, more informed decisions about nursing homes for their loved ones.
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Stop & Frisk: Guns
By Erin Kissane
Posted onA mapping project from WNYC that displays NYPD stop-and-frisks by block and locations where the police discovered guns during such stops.