In some public places, such as schools and hospitals, microphones installed with software…
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Unproven aggression detectors, more surveillance
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Millions of dollars in tax breaks — because of a mapping error
A small discrepancy in a couple of shapefiles led to a misclassification of…
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Search through 3m nonprofit tax records
ProPublica just released a search tool for nonprofit tax records:
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Where the IRS most likely audits
Using estimates from a study on regional bias in tax audits, ProPublica mapped…
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Inflated counts for cleared rape cases
Newsy, Reveal and ProPublica look into rape cases in the U.S. and law…
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Education disparities
There are many racial disparities in education. ProPublica shows estimates for the gaps:…
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Scale model shows how levees increase flooding
Levees are intended to prevent flooding in the areas they are built, but…
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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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Check if your school district or college was investigated for civil rights violations
The U.S. Department of Education constantly investigates school districts and colleges for civil…
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Waiting Game, through the steps of asylum seekers
Sisi Wei for ProPublica and Nick Fortugno of Playmatics made a game to…
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Bomb contaminants where you live
Lena Groeger, Ryann Grochowski Jones and Abrahm Lustgarten, reporting for ProPublica with a…
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Flawed hate crime data collection
Data can provide you with important information, but when the collection process is…
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Data journalism lessons available from ProPublica Data Institute
ProPublica runs a small annual workshop to teach journalists a bit about data…
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Bomb threats to Jewish Community Centers
Ken Schwencke and Al Shaw from ProPublica with a set of straightforward maps…
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Houston flooding on the rise
Climate change is doing some weird stuff. What were once rare weather events…
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Election DataBot provides a feed of the interesting data stories
There is a ton of election-related data pushed out every day, so much…
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Bias built in to crime prediction
Predictive policing seems to be playing a bigger role in court decisions these…
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Track what your government representatives are doing for you
Taking over an old New York Times project, ProPublica re-launches Represent, which offers…
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Hurricane simulations show severe flooding in Houston
In 2008, Hurricane Ike blew just past the Houston Ship Channel, “home to…
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Campaign Finance API moves to ProPublica
Back in 2008, the New York Times rolled out a campaign finance API…
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