Data Team

Latest posts

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  How we analyzed disparities in Arizona's federal-only voter rolls

  Using unified shapefiles, voter registrations, and PostgreSQL to evaluate voters' likelihood of being blocked from casting a full ballot.
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  State of the Art

  Scrollytelling powered by custom observables
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  Data Crimes of 2023

  Here are the worst things we did to process education data this year.

Featured projects

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  Why are Chicago high schoolers missing so much school? May 16th, 2025
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  Here are Chicago's new school board districts Jun 14th, 2024
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  ‘Still hungry’: Struggling to feed NYC students as pandemic aid wanes Jul 8th, 2022

Recent stories

• Here’s where to find summer meals for kids in Shelby County - Jun 16th, 2025
• Studies of students in Indianapolis Public Schools, charters fuel debate - Apr 18th, 2025
• Charter school student enrollment grows steadily in Colorado - Apr 1st, 2025
• Candidates and political groups poured more than $13 million during Chicago’s first school board election - Jan 27th, 2025
• IPS enrollment falls by over 3% as hundreds of students leave middle schools - Jan 8th, 2025
• What did democracy look like in the first Chicago school board races? - Nov 15th, 2024
• Mergers ahead: NYC is combining more tiny schools to combat enrollment drops - Oct 25th, 2024
• How the NYC high school admissions process sorts kids by race, poverty, disability - Oct 16th, 2024
• Explaining Chicago Public Schools: Academic performance - Sep 20th, 2024
• Explaining Chicago Public Schools: The buildings - Sep 19th, 2024

Our team

• Thomas Wilburn - Senior Data Editor
• Kae Petrin - Data/Graphics Reporter