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Lessons from a data project: Investigating Toronto’s multimillion-dollar program to improve road safety
By Inori Roy
Posted onPoor record-keeping foiled our FOIA plans. Here’s what we learned through the simple, tedious process of creating data by hand.
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Small teams & solo work: Using a QA process to build confidence in your data stories
By Kae Petrin
Posted onFour steps you can take to catch errors earlier and bulletproof your work, even if you don’t have a colleague to help out.
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Q&As and takeaways: Reporting on corporate landlords
By Tyler Dukes
Posted onHighlights from a recent community call conversation.
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COVID-19 story recipe: Analyzing disparate impact based on race, poverty, and vulnerability in your area
By Hannah Recht
Posted onAs new COVID-19 hot spots popped up across the country and states began to release data by race and ethnicity, the team at Kaiser Health News reported on why the illness was striking Black, Hispanic, and Native Americans so intensely. Here’s how you can use the data to report on your community.
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A comparison of four major COVID-19 data sources
By Irena Fischer-Hwang and Justin Mayo
Posted onA variety of datasets can help journalists track the spread of COVID-19. But which should you rely on? What’s the difference between them? What are the advantages and disadvantages to each? This guide will walk you through four major COVID-19 data sources: Johns Hopkins University, COVID Tracking Project, USAFacts, and The New York Times.
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COVID-19 story recipe: Using AHA data to analyze hospital bed capacity
By Dilcia Mercedes
Posted onAmerican Hospital Association data can help you estimate the total number of beds your region could need to treat patients in a COVID-19 outbreak, and how many beds are likely to be available based on expected usage patterns. Here’s how you can use the data to report on your community.
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COVID-19 story recipe: Identifying communities at risk from the pandemic and its economic fallout
By Jayme Fraser
Posted onUsing data from the CDC and the federal Health Resources & Services Administration, USA Today found counties that are both medically underserved and vulnerable to disasters—places where residents would be most at risk of losing access to health care during the COVID-19 outbreak. Here’s how you can use the data to report on your community.
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How to make sense of all the COVID-19 datasets right now
By Sinduja Rangarajan
Posted onThere are a lot of COVID-19 datasets available, and it can be hard to know how they differ and which ones are most trustworthy. Here’s an overview of current datasets that journalists can rely on for stories.
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COVID-19 story recipe: How to see what stocks members of Congress are dumping (or buying)
By Derek Willis
Posted onProPublica used the Senate’s financial disclosures to find that not long after Sen. Richard Burr offered a positive assessment in public of the country’s ability to handle the coronavirus, he sold hundreds of thousands of (and potentially up to $1.7 million) dollars in stocks, a highly unusual series of trades for him. Here’s how you can reproduce the story for your community.
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COVID-19 story recipe: How to analyze your region’s hospital capacity
By Erin Petenko
Posted onVTDigger used Harvard Global Health Institute data to look into local hospitals’ capacity for handling an outbreak. Here’s how you can reproduce the story for your community.
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COVID-19 story recipe: Analyzing nursing home data for infection-control problems
By Mike Stucka
Posted onA USA Today analysis found that three-quarters of nursing homes have been cited for infection-control problems in recent years. Here’s how you can reproduce the story for your community.
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Free the Files API + Q&A with Al Shaw
By Erin Kissane and Al Shaw
Posted onProPublica’s interactive data-analysis project gets an API, and Al Shaw answers our development questions about the making of Free the Files.
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