ProPublica has been collecting thousands of disclosure documents, and they made a searchable…
Statistics
More than mean, median, and mode.
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Database to explore conflicts of interest through financial disclosures
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Meta planning facial recognition with glasses
Meta’s smart glasses have an outward facing camera pointed at what you’re looking…
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Ring cancels partnership with law enforcement supplier Flock
The Amazon-owned security system Ring was planning to partner with Flock Safety, who…
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Ring cameras as large-scale surveillance system
During the Super Bowl, Ring ran a commercial that shows how everyone’s doorbell…
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US population might decline for the first time
For Bloomberg, Shawn Donnan runs the numbers and discusses how this might affect…
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Jobs reports delayed, because government shutdown
Ben Casselman reporting for the New York Times:
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Trying to make US postal workers count people for decennial census
Under the supposed premise of saving money, the administration proposes that US postal…
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Gridded snowfall data
The National Weather Service has current and historical snowfall data in various file…
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Justice Department says DOGE might have used Social Security data for political purposes
With a surprise to nobody, Kyle Cheney for Politico:
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Americans are paying for tariffs
For the Wall Street Journal, Tom Fairless reports on research from the Kiel…
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Names most likely to appear in the middle
What is the most middle name in the United States? Erin Davis grew…
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Losing American data
For Bloomberg, Molly Smith reports on the state of government data:
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Your interpretation of uncertainty language compared
Probability expressed as a percentage is a value between 0% and 100%. If…
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DOGE hiring and non-hiring data
In efforts to understand the hiring and firing at the beginning of the…
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College football happiness rankings
For the Washington Post, Emily Giambalvo, Kati Perry, and Artur Galocha, ranked college…
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Getting stuck in the mental health section of the TikTok algorithm
The Washington Post analyzed TikTok usage, finding what topics the algorithm nudges users…
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Zillow removed climate risk scores, because property-level modeling is not foolproof
When Zillow removed climate risk scores from property listings, many assumed the company…
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Database of mound charging in baseball
Jon Bois of Secret Base is working on a documentary that covers the…
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Non-profit takes over a canceled NOAA database
In May, NOAA’s disaster database was canceled because it is related to climate.…
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Decisions without data
For Bloomberg, Jarrell Dillard and Michael Sasso report on the effects of the…








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