Table listing Virginia county names with numbers. The letters in the county names are unevenly spaced, some are very close together and others are spread out with lots of space between letters.
crimes against kerning
19.02.2026 15:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Feel like it's telling that you *don't* see people who have a lot of experience with T-MSIS data rushing to put out quick-and-dirty analyses (they know how quirky T-MSIS data can be)
Sloppy efforts to "expose" Medicaid "fraud" like this are going to expand the large target already on HCBS services
DC Water also acknowledged that in recent days they put out some of their own testing data on the level of bacteria and E. coli in the river but had their numbers wrong. They blame human error, and it was way off. E. coli levels are about 100 times higher than DC Water initially reported.
Just a little oopsie poopsie. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/w...
11.02.2026 13:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0NEWS: Ward 8 Councilmember Trayon White's trial for bribery, which was scheduled to begin March 24, will be delayed. A judge agreed that a "significant amount of new information" turned over last month by prosecutors to White's defense attorney justified holding off on trial. No new date yet.
09.02.2026 22:47 — 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
You need to hire @timmeko.bsky.social as your next graphics leader, period.
Back when I was a baby data analyst wanting to make graphics & become a journalist Tim took me under his wing, taught me everything, advocated for me to work with his team. So many of us are journalists now because of Tim.
I had the privilege of working with the Post graphics team for a bit in 2024. Not only are they the absolute best at their craft, but more importantly, incredible people who were so welcoming even though I was just a temp.
Read the thread & hire these amazing gfx/data/dev journalists right away.
Today I was one of the many laid off from the Post. It is a dark day for news. For now I am going to take some time with my family before figuring out where I go from here.
In the meantime, please consider supporting my colleagues. Any contribution helps: www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...
Alyssa is the best and incredibly talented and anyone would be lucky to work with her.
04.02.2026 19:06 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My latest @npr.org story: The Trump administration has shrunk the number of locations for this year’s #2030Census field test and added plans to test replacing temporary census workers with postal workers, raising concerns about the Census Bureau’s ability to produce a reliable national head count
02.02.2026 18:10 — 👍 35 🔁 23 💬 1 📌 3
R code showing how to get poverty data using the censusapi R package
Table of poverty data showing child and adult poverty rates in Autauga County, AL by year.
The Census Bureau also updated one of my favorite lesser-known datasets this week: the Small Area Income & Poverty Estimates now has 2024 data.
You can get annual timeseries poverty data for states, counties, or school districts in one call. Here's how to do it in R. www.hrecht.com/censusapi/ar...
The 2024 5-year American Community Survey is finally here. Get your data hot off the presses. 🗞️
29.01.2026 13:54 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0They're younger than that. decided to do some quick calcs on Deportation Data Project data from Jan. 20-Oct. 15, 2025. Nearly 1,100 kids with birth years that would make them 9 or under are listed in the arrest data. Here's the chart.
23.01.2026 19:25 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1open source data journalism lives on, absolutely love to see it
23.01.2026 15:31 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0iced coffee season is year round, weather is irrelevant, I will die on this hill
23.01.2026 15:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
BREAKING: The controversial hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau has been *cancelled,* I can now report. A senior official with Africa CDC confirmed the cancellation and said GB officials are working to make sure any research is conducted ethically:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
new electricity and natural gas data just dropped 👀
maybe relevant context for your Venezuelan oil data stories
I keep thinking that nothing will surprise me anymore and yet once again I've been proven wrong.
“You are asking people if they feel safe, if they can afford food. Then you charge them,” he said. “In what world does that actually make sense?”
📈 The September 2025 CPS and 2024 1-year ACS microdata are finally in the Census APIs after government shutdown delays
04.12.2025 16:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Exciting news: my union @pen-guild.bsky.social won our fight to hold management accountable for rolling out AI tools with no notice & for failing to hold the bots to the same standards all of us humans must follow — in violation of the contract they agreed to. A neutral arbiter said we were right!
01.12.2025 16:16 — 👍 242 🔁 86 💬 4 📌 11
Census users: The 5-year American Community Survey summary data release originally scheduled for December is now postponed to January 26. Microdata in March. www.census.gov/programs-sur...
24.11.2025 20:01 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The Census Bureau is back releasing data that was delayed during the government shutdown. Click the tracker link for the latest additions. 👇
21.11.2025 14:17 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0perfectly thumb-sized!
20.11.2025 15:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
please steal my never fleshed out idea: what animal has the right sized hands (if they had opposable thumbs) for today's giant phones www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af0g...
19.11.2025 22:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0i already have the iphone size data scraped that you can use, not a joke
19.11.2025 22:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0From now on I'll name my files using a short video of me screaming into oblivion. Search them based on trying to match the scream audio using microphone input. Perfect.
12.11.2025 16:55 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Always read everything by @laurenweberhp.bsky.social
10.11.2025 16:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If you try to access the rent control data DC's portal (a decade in the making) still brings you to an employee log in screen instead of giving a usable message about why you can't see it. Yes the agency knows, per my emails with them months ago. bsky.app/profile/hann...
10.11.2025 14:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
10 YEARS later DC's rent control database is launched...partly. Still no public data access. Read for the maddening details of literal years of bureaucratic delays. streetsensemedia.org/article/d-c-...
10.11.2025 14:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0🎉 camel case and snake case conversion functions!! 🎉
06.11.2025 14:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
current Ohio US district map with 5 districts held by Democrats and 10 held by Republicans
new Ohio US district map with 3 districts leaning Democrat and 12 leaning Republican based on previous statewide elections
An Ohio panel adopted new U.S. House districts today and almost all — 13 out of 15 districts — got new borders.
Check out the side by side maps. Peep the reshaped District 1 snakey appendage taking it from blue to likely red. apnews.com/article/virg...
