Hannah Recht

ha nooo just in general. At least I hope not!!

most surprising factoid of #nicar26 so far: there are AI toilets
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As measles spreads in South Carolina, RFK Jr’s allies work to gut vaccine laws Activists who dispute safety of vaccines are pushing to limit immunization requirements in schools

Groups with ties to Robert F Kennedy Jr are encouraging followers to organize opposition to vaccine mandates in more than 20 states, including six states with current measles outbreaks.

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

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...

NEWS: 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.

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.

Donate to Washington Post 2026 layoff fund, organized by Rachel Siegel On Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, The Washington Post laid off hundreds of journalists. We ar… Rachel Siegel needs your support for Washington Post 2026 layoff fund

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.

My 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

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. 🗞️

They'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.

open source data journalism lives on, absolutely love to see it

iced coffee season is year round, weather is irrelevant, I will die on this hill

Controversial US study on hepatitis B vaccines in Africa is cancelled $1.6m project drew outrage over ethical questions about withholding vaccines proven to prevent disease

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

PEN Guild wins landmark arbitration on AI protections - Washington-Baltimore News Guild This marks one of the first major labor-arbitration rulings on the impact of AI on journalism, setting an important precedent for the U.S. news industry.

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!

2024 Data Release Schedule Review the planned dates and components of the 2024 ACS release.

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...

The Census Bureau is back releasing data that was delayed during the government shutdown. Click the tracker link for the latest additions. 👇

perfectly thumb-sized!

YouTube video by MyApple Apple iPhone 5 - TV Ad - Thumb - Commercial

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...

i already have the iphone size data scraped that you can use, not a joke

From 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.

Always read everything by @laurenweberhp.bsky.social

If 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...