Data journalism syllabus: From numeracy to visualization and beyond
…the data into Carto.com. Dataset & data story of the week: Andrew Ryan, et al., “City Payroll Soars after Police and Fire Deals,” The Boston Globe, 2015 City of Boston…
…the data into Carto.com. Dataset & data story of the week: Andrew Ryan, et al., “City Payroll Soars after Police and Fire Deals,” The Boston Globe, 2015 City of Boston…
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…Agency (DEA). Why would anyone use such a dangerous drug? In many cases, they aren’t aware. New York City’s Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor says users are not actively…
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…don’t have journalists covering city hall, policy decisions, political decisions in an in-depth way, because the citizenry of my own hometown, Newton, Mass., as well as the citizens of the…
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…over 9,000 environmental problems in the city’s public schools, including mold, asbestos and lead paint, during a nine month investigation that relied on community-based testing. The series, called “Toxic City:…
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…1930 and 1940 covering nine major cities and two boroughs in New York City: Baltimore, Boston, Brooklyn and Manhattan, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and St. Louis. They call…
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…success rates did vary by city. The researchers were most likely to schedule appointments with psychiatrists in Houston and least likely to schedule them with psychiatrists in Boston. On average,…
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…a city’s police force, the authors write. The paper adds to past research investigating how health and other shocks — like football upsets — affect crime rates. “Usually people look…
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…small, serving students in a city or public school district. Others are open to students across a state. In 2015, Tennessee became the first state in the country to offer…
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…you described being followed by Chinese security personnel while reporting in a city near the North Korean border. Can you recount that incident and other challenges of reporting in China?…
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…scarcity,’ the retailer does not limit the supply of the product but the scarcity arises due to factors like high demand for the product thus leading to stock depletion.” We…
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