Articles tagged: R

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   COVID-19 story recipe: Analyzing disparate impact based on race, poverty, and vulnerability in your area

   By Hannah Recht

   Posted on May 8, 2020

   As 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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   How We Built a Database from Thousands of Police Reports

   By MaryJo Webster

   Posted on August 23, 2018

   How we built our massive analysis of sexual assault cases in Minnesota, with tools that anyone on our team could use.

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   How We Made “Sending Even More Immigrants to Prison”

   By Yolanda Martinez

   Posted on August 13, 2018

   A data project that shows how the U.S. government has prioritized immigration deterrence and criminalization.

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   How We Found New Patterns in LA’s Homeless Arrest Data

   By Christine Zhang

   Posted on March 5, 2018

   How we got the numbers on arrests of the homeless in LA, how we vetted the numbers, and, most importantly, how we found the story behind—and beyond—the numbers.

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   What I Learned Recreating One Chart Using 24 Tools

   By Lisa Charlotte Rost

   Posted on December 8, 2016

   Lessons learned from trying to create one chart with as many applications, libraries, and programming languages as possible.

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   Investigating 13,000 “Good” Nursing Homes in Germany

   By Sandhya Kambhampati

   Posted on June 20, 2016

   We built a web platform to help readers make better, more informed decisions about nursing homes for their loved ones.

7. Stop & Frisk: Guns

   By Erin Kissane

   Posted on July 18, 2012

   A mapping project from WNYC that displays NYPD stop-and-frisks by block and locations where the police discovered guns during such stops.