Alexandra Kanik
Alexandra Kanik is a data reporter for CityMetric where she analyzes data and writes about housing, transportation and other city issues. Previously, she was a data reporter for Louisville Public Media in Kentucky and PublicSource in Pennsylvania.
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Articles by Alexandra
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COVID-19 story recipe: A dashboard with at-risk health indicators
We teamed up to give our communities context about vulnerable populations—here’s how you can use our code and data
Posted onWe teamed up to build a dashboard that shows two kinds of data: how widespread COVID–19 is in a community, alongside health indicators that show how some people are more at risk. We’ve open-sourced the project so you can use it too.
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Just One Thing: A Year in Review, Part 2
Appreciation of usefulness and bar-raising at the end of a long, complicated year
Posted onAs we did last year, we’ve asked a couple of dozen people from all around the news-nerd community to tell us about one thing—article, feature, app, tool, or something else entirely—that they loved in 2015. This week, we’re publishing their responses, from interactives to project management software. We hope you find here at least one thing that eases your work, inspires new angles on your stories, and helps carry you through to 2016.
Product manager diary: What I learned taking an intro course in web development