Ken Schwencke and Al Shaw from ProPublica with a set of straightforward maps…
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Bomb threats to Jewish Community Centers
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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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Wear Patterns →
Naturally occurring visualization in the physical world.
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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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Missing votes in Congress
When members of the House of Representatives miss a vote, it is customary…
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Value of body parts for injured workers
A detailed look at the state where companies can write their own workers’ compensation plans.
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Growth of Las Vegas metro and skyline
Western cities are growing but water supplies are decreasing. That’s not good. ProPublica,…
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Health data breaches and fines
Sisi Wei and Charles Ornstein for ProPublica highlight reported data breaches to the…
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Decline of workers’ compensation
Workers’ Compensation, a promise to pay medical bills and some of your wages…
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News that China blocks
China blocks sites from its citizens. We know this. But, what do they…
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Easier online choropleth maps with Landline
Despite the frequent use of choropleth maps online, they’re still kind of tricky…
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Extinctions and animal species at risk
Data journalist Anna Flagg for ProPublica reported on animal species at higher risk…
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Louisiana is drowning
Louisiana is quickly losing much of its coast to the Gulf of Mexico.…
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NSA programs with goofy names →
Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson for ProPublica made a chart of NSA programs…
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ProPublica opened a data store
One of the main challenges of any data project is getting the data.…
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Acetaminophen availability around the world
Probublica has a detailed piece on the potential overuse of acetaminophen, commonly known…