Women's Share of Top Military Promotions Falls as Hegseth Blocks Nominees

The percentage of high-ranking officer nominations going to women is currently at its lowest level in over two decades.

Scraped Congressional API data, analyzed in R and created graphics with Svelte/layercake

How Much SpaceX Are You About to Own?

If you have index funds — such as in a 401(k) — they may soon include shares of the mega company. Here's a rough calculation.

Interactive calculator created with Javascript and Svelte, with data analysis in R and graphics with Svelte/layercake

Texas Is a Tossup. The Times/Siena Poll Points to How It Got There.

A major shift among Hispanic voters and a favorable candidate matchup have helped put Democrats on the doorstep of a Senate upset.

Created graphics in Svelte for Nate Cohn's newsletter, The Tilt

Replacing a Senate Nominee Is Rare. Has It Ever Worked?

Graham Platner is one of just a handful of candidates in recent decades who have withdrawn from a Senate race after securing a major party nomination.

Analyzed 30 years of primary and general election data in R and created graphics with Svelte/layercake

X Is Using AI Fact-Checkers

Eight AI bots contribute about 10 percent of the platform's “Community Notes.”

First piece to analyze new AI Community Note writers, analyzed in R and graphics using ggplot/Adobe Illustrator

The Legislative Network Behind State Trans Laws

A new analysis reveals how policies use language sourced from lobbying groups and disseminated throughout state legislator networks.

Scrollytelling story built in Svelte using natural language processing from thousands of scraped bills in Python

The White House Is Its Own Media Outlet

The Trump administration is publishing articles that are top-ranked on Google News.

Graphics created with Datawrapper/Illustrator/ggplot, scraped with Python and analyzed using R

Grok Is Now Editing Itself

More and more, Elon Musk’s chatbot is both suggesting and approving changes to Grokipedia, his Wikipedia clone.

Data scraped from undocumented API using Python

Polymarket Affiliates Are Spreading Misinformation on X

“News” accounts tied to betting markets are filling a demand for breaking news on a platform many journalists have abandoned.

Scraped data from X and graphics made in Adobe Illustrator

"We're showing all our dirty laundry": A scientific crisis in psychology

Attempts to replicate studies often failed to produce results and left the field reeling.

A scrollytelling story built with ggplot/RAWGraphs and Adobe Illustrator/ai2html, using data scraped with Playwright and BeautifulSoup

Chronic Absenteeism Remains High in Harlem Elementary Schools

Over half of Harlem elementary schoolers are chronically absent, which can imperil students' futures.

Story picked up by Associated Press Newswire from Columbia News Service.

Graphics in Datawrapper and analyzed in R

Courier Newsroom Spent Big on a Meta Ad Blitz in October

Columbia Journalism Review story on partisan newsrooms in 2024 election.

Extracted data from Meta Ad Library API using Python, analysis in R and all graphics from ggplot

Citi Bike or City Hike? Mapping NYC's Most Unreliable Stations

Even the most popular stations fail to serve riders at peak times.

Data scraped using GitHub actions and Python from Citi Bike real-time API over three months and analyzed in R/ggplot

I'll take AWKWARD SILENCE for $800

Why are Jeopardy contestants getting stumped more often?

A scrollytelling story built with ggplot and Adobe Illustrator/ai2html, using data scraped with BeautifulSoup

The Year of the Woman, In One Chart

How women changed Congress in 1992.

Graphic created in RAWGraphs and Adobe Illustrator with scrollytelling elements

News Homepage Simplifier Google Extension

Third place winner of RJI Study Innovation Competition, partnering with Iowa Capital Dispatch.

Google Extension made primarily with HTML, CSS and Javascript. Stores user preferences and injects HTML using JS

New York Times: Unwinding Wordle: Accelerating Your Solve

Working with our Games desk, I contributed research and data analysis to a guide to Wordle strategy

How the New York Times Games Data Team Revamped Its Reporting

A preview into the work I did at the New York Times Games team, including building a new data pipeline and dashboard suite