Washington Post Data

Stories, news and asides from the Washington Post's Data Team. We crunch the numbers to make sense of the news.

[Meghan Hoyer @MeghanHoyer]

We are SO excited about this!
@kcrowebasspro is going to level up @wpdatateam's mapping analysis game and kill it in this important position: https://t.co/rVXAe48y59

[Meghan Hoyer @MeghanHoyer]

Excited to see @EmilyGiam, @ccemorse, @joeptone and the rest of the talented & wickedly collaborative team of reporters and editors who dove deep into the experience of Black NFL coaches be named an @IRE_NICAR finalist for sports investigative reporting: https://t.co/a6AU8ubI6b

[Washington Post Data @wpdatateam]

@abtran @jeremybmerrill @dataeditor @Jdharden @aadittambe And of course FODTs @hsforeman and @luciovilla are rocking lightning talks at 5!
#NICAR23

[Washington Post Data @wpdatateam]

Most of the team is at #NICAR23 this week, come find us!
Today:
- @abtran taught R viz techniques in the a.m.
- @jeremybmerrill is de-mystifying cryptocurrency data at 4:45
- @dataeditor and @abtran
are talking about investigating pay inequities in your newsroom at 4:45

[Washington Post Data @wpdatateam]

@abtran @jeremybmerrill @dataeditor Today's #NICAR23 lineup from @wpdatateam & friends:
- @jeremybmerrill discussed mining social media
- @Jdharden is teaching string functions in spreadsheets at 2:15
- FODT (friend of data team) @aadittambe talks github scrapers at 2:15
- @dataeditor talks scraping at 3:30

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

For the last five years, reporters @JohnWoodrowCox and @dataeditor have been maintaining a unique database that tracks the total number of children exposed to gun violence at school. Learn more about their findings today at 4 p.m. ET on Reddit: https://t.co/a6CnNKsHs0.

[Washington Post Data @wpdatateam]

Take our quiz to find out what you know about who-said-what during State of the Union addresses, by @dtkeating,
@hannahdormido and @nckmourt: https://t.co/nnTj5lJKVF

[Meghan Hoyer @MeghanHoyer]

Y'all both @ccemorse AND @Invisibae are coming back to @wpdatateam this summer! We are so, so lucky!

[Steven Rich @dataeditor]

hello from gainesville, florida

[Caitlin Gilbert @caitlinsgilbert]

~news~ I can finally share that I’ll be joining @wpdatateam @washingtonpost as a data reporter on the well+being team in a couple weeks! So so excited to get started.

I’ll also seriously miss working with my fabulous colleagues at @ftdata and across the @FinancialTimes 💕

[Washington Post Data @wpdatateam]

It's 2023. We'll only be communicating with you via fax. Plan accordingly.

[Washington Post Data @wpdatateam]

Tag your favorite @wpdatateam member below. @meghanhoyer is Bowser.

Also: our team can take your team in Mario Kart

[Washington Post Data @wpdatateam]

@normconf This talk in particular from @Randy_Au was triggering: https://t.co/N2GwoIalfl

[Washington Post Data @wpdatateam]

Spending our team skillshare watching @normconf lightning talks and everyone's data anxiety is now SKY HIGH

[Washington Post Data @wpdatateam]

@WapoEngineering @wpinvestigates @PostGraphics @jenburkejenkins @paigethepaige @abtran @dataeditor @tmellnik @emamd @ReubenFB @DavidSFallis @sarah_childress @marisa_iati @clurhealy In fact, when we started collecting this data, the FBI reported about half what we did. Last year, they collected just 1 in 6 as more departments failed to report their shootings.

[Washington Post Data @wpdatateam]

For the past 8 years, The Post has tracked data on every fatal police shooting across the country.

Today we’re releasing a revamped interactive & public dataset of each killing with additional fields & a more detailed methodology on how we’ve done it: https://t.co/0eYfgKbmUt
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[Washington Post Data @wpdatateam]

@WapoEngineering @wpinvestigates @PostGraphics @jenburkejenkins @paigethepaige @abtran @dataeditor @tmellnik @emamd @ReubenFB @DavidSFallis @sarah_childress We’re releasing the new data in conjunction with an investigative story from @abtran, @marisa_iati and @clurhealy that found that while FBI data makes it look like fatal police shootings are plummeting, that they've actually gone up in recent years: https://t.co/v1BahuvbWY
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