The 2020 Census count at the state level is set for release this…
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Seat apportionment over time
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Age generations in the U.S. Senate, over time
With this straightforward unit chart, wcd.fyi shows which generation each Senate member belonged…
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How the mob broke into the U.S. Capitol
The Washington Post pieced together video footage from multiple sources for a timeline…
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How the Census translates to power, a cat comic
State population dictates the number of seats in the House of Representatives, so…
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U.S. military buys location data from apps
Joseph Cox, reporting for Motherboard:
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How long before there is gender equality in the U.S. House and Senate
For The Washington Post, Sergio Peçanha asks, “What will it take to achieve…
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Government shutdown, other industries provided for scale
As the shutdown continues, 800,000 government workers wait for something to happen. The…
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High school statistics class builds election prediction model
High school seniors, in the Political Statistics class at Montgomery Blair High School…
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$16.1m in political and taxpayer spending at Trump properties
ProPublica compiled spending data from a wide range of sources to calculate the…
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Amazon Rekognition for government surveillance
Amazon’s Rekognition is a video analysis system that promises to identify individuals in…
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Where constituent input ends up
When you have input to send Congress, you have a number of communication…
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Redistricting the congressional map with different goals
FiveThirtyEight asks, “There’s a lot of complaining about gerrymandering, but what should districts…
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Troubling pick for Census Bureau deputy director
The administration’s current pick for deputy director of the United States Census Bureau…
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How many people might lose health insurance
The Urban Institute estimated how many people in each state gained health insurance…
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Searchable budget proposal and the 10-year change
The administration released a budget proposal yesterday, which as you’d expect contains some…
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Gerrymandering game shows you how it works
Gerrymandering is the practice of manipulating boundaries in such a way that favors…
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Data distributed as clipart
Government data isn’t always the easiest to use with computers. Maybe it’s in…
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Trump approval ratings compared to past presidents
Using multiple polls as their source data, FiveThirtyEight is tracking approval and disapproval…
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Shifting national budget
The Washington Post looks at the shifting national budget over the past 40…
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Easily download large-ish survey datasets
Many government organizations release microdata for surveys every year. It comes as anonymized…