Emily Zentner
Emily Zentner is a Data Reporter at CapRadio in Sacramento, where she combines her skills in reporting and digital production to create original, data-based interactives for the station’s website. Before coming to CapRadio, Emily worked as a video producer at the Sacramento Bee. She is passionate about local news and how to use data and visuals to help people better understand their community.
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Articles by Emily
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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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How We Mapped More Than 100 Years Of Wildfire History
Emily Zentner & Chris Hagan on using a fire geodatabase, MapBox, and a whole lot of Google searching.
Posted onQuantifying chaos: building Capital Public Radio’s California Wildfire History map using a CalFire geodatabase, MapBox and a whole lot of Google searching.
Product manager diary: What I learned taking an intro course in web development