The Army is investigating why an Apache attack helicopter conducting a training flight hovered outside the Tennessee home of musician Kid Rock and near protesters at No Kings rallies in the state, officials said Monday. with @alexhorton.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Once again done in by my own hubris of adding the suffix "_FINAL" to a file. THE HUBRIS!

Uploaded a Census handout in Grammarly to see who’d pop up in their Expert Reviews and looks like @shcohen.bsky.social and @albertocairo.com are among their AI experts. I have a feeling that’s news to them! www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...

Emily is the best sports data journalist working right now, and I have no doubt she will continue to do incredible things in whichever newsroom is lucky enough to hire her. I’ll deeply miss getting to work with such an amazing colleague (and fellow FPL fan!!!)

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The @washingtonpost.com still sharing our data and how we did the work while other newsrooms pull back. Check out the gathered data on Github #opendata #reproducibility #transparency bsky.app/profile/cait...

As vaccination has become a political hot potato, the already patchwork of counties & schools meeting herd immunity standards has fallen further. Maps + an interactive to lookup your local schools in this blockbuster w/ @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & @caitlingilbert.bsky.social wapo.st/49zDc43

EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected. Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43

For our new visual investigation into how night vision and city lights may have played a part in the DCA crash we flew a drone along the helicopters route, filmed incoming planes through night vision goggles, and analyzed it all within a 3D model of Washington, D.C. Watch here wapo.st/4atdTBI

Excellent breakdown of potential contributing factors to the tragic air collision over the Potomac. Class B information overload + lights & NVGs potential contributors via @imogenpiper.bsky.social @jb1prod.bsky.social @abtran.bsky.social @alexhorton.bsky.social Brian Perlman wapo.st/4atdTBI

Love the methodology box behind this College Football Happiness Rankings story wapo.st/49iK71p

This email. #FOIA. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/20/m...

Wide roads and fast-moving vehicles — especially when combined with signs of poverty, homelessness, drug & alcohol abuse, plus a lack of pedestrian-focused roadway improvements — has produced a pattern of death-by-vehicle that is uniquely American. Investigation by Ian Duncan & Emmanuel Martinez:

You can oversee the bloody dismemberment of a Washington Post journalist with a bone saw, and the president of the United States will smile, shake your hand and threaten to pull the license of a news outlet whose reporter asks you a question about it. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Tracking the spread of bird flu using genetic markers, satellite imagery, property records, and more reminds me of John Snow’s Cholera investigation/map. Howe’s Hens is the modern day Broad Street Pump. Amazing work from @natlash.bsky.social & @chrisalcantara.com. www.propublica.org/article/meth...

As costs rise again, most Americans fault Trump, Post-ABC-Ipsos poll finds. Story by @abha-b.bsky.social @abtran.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Trump’s demolition of the East Wing + construction of his ballroom is broadly unpopular. 56% of Americans oppose the project, compared to 28% who support it, per new Post-ABC-Ipsos poll. with @abtran.bsky.social @jonathanreports.bsky.social @sfcpoll.bsky.social

New Post-ABC-Ipsos poll: Americans oppose President Donald Trump’s demolition of the White House’s East Wing to make way for a 90,000-square-foot ballroom building by a 2-to-1 margin. By @ddiamond.bsky.social @abtran.bsky.social @jonathanreports.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The mysterious rise of cancer among young adults in the Corn Belt. This story has both bivariate maps AND a color-coded scatterplot with explainers! #dataviz

How America’s favorite sports bet is fueling sportsbook profits Parlays are becoming more popular, accounting for an increasing share of the money wagered on sports, according to a Post analysis of betting data. Bettors lose billions a year on these bets. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/inter...

Parlays have become incredibly popular, with many betting apps encouraging these high-stakes multi-leg bets. But as legs are added, the chance of winning drops faster than the growth of the potential payout - which means sportsbooks have the advantage. Explore the math and and try your own bets:

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

During Trump's federal law enforcement surge in DC, Park Police helicopters spent nearly 20 hours hovering over city neighborhoods, up from 3 hours this same time last year -- and flew hundreds of feet lower than other helicopters. With @imogenpiper.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department’s officer count alone already puts D.C. ahead of any other large city in the United States per capita. Including the additional federal officials means there’s currently one officer for every 100 residents in D.C. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Adding another example to my college class folder of "wtf dataviz"

When you get a government data set and can guess the person who used to regularly publish it took the RIF because it's a totally different messier format...

Some day I will be able to recognize which digits are latitude and which ones are longitude but it won't be today or any time soon.

NEW: The Census Bureau is planning to scale back its Survey of Income and Program Participation — which is used to measure use of SNAP food assistance and other government programs — and start using "non-survey data" to lower costs, according to a budget document www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...

The National Archives had a message yesterday that their College Park facility would become restricted-access. This would be a horrible. We visited often last year to research Indian Boarding schools and the cartographic staff were so helpful. I saw hundreds of citizens getting help looking up docs.

Changing the :joy: emoji to the :lolsob: one feels right

Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School! Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101. Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Most common county names across the United States: Washington (31), Franklin (26), Jefferson (26), Jackson (24), Lincoln (24), and Madison (20)

Today, hundreds of our colleagues on the technology side of the company announced the formation of @wapotechguild.bsky.social (1)

💥 HUGE news: Today, our Washington Post colleagues announced @wapotechguild. With a majority of over 300 tech workers signing cards in support, they’re seeking voluntary recognition.

another day, another site refactor completely breaking my scraper! fine!

Syncing rows of data between state names and state abbreviations are totally fine until you get to the Ms. Like, wtf is this nonsense.

Decades from now, the Covid-19 pandemic will be visible in the historical data of nearly anything measurable today. Here’s an incomplete collection of charts that capture that break — across the economy, health care, education, work, family life and more.

This may be the best thing you’ll read today. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Subskeeting mcneill.bsky.social #nicar25 www.tidyverse.org/blog/2017/12...

I made a tidycensus cheatsheet for my #nicar25 class. I have a dozen left if anyone wants a hard copy. #rstats #nicar2025

I love how #nicar25 gives data journalists a chance to show off their custom made internal dashboards/apps/explorers they used for their investigations

Hopefully the results from this year's Oscars signals to Hollywood execs that they can't rely on the Academy to automatically reward lazy Musician Biopics. Give us weird movies with heart!

NEW: A WIRED investigation reveals that Elon Musk’s Starlink is serving internet to scam compounds in Myanmar where tens of thousands of human beings are enslaved. By @mattburgess1.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/starli...

The unvaccinated child who died of measles in Texas was otherwise healthy. I interviewed a doctor who treated the child. Free link: wapo.st/3QBGSIr

Since January 24, 15,650 people have died because of Trump’s freeze on PEPFAR funding. 1,505 of the dead are infants. #HIV #AIDS #PEPFAR #health #childhealth #healthequity pepfar.impactcounter.com

DOGE claims don't stand up - check it out www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... w @abtran.bsky.social @rachellerman.bsky.social @jonswaine.bsky.social

The DOGE site initially listed the original version of a contract from FPDS with a higher $8 billion amount, when the more updated version showed only $8 million. They updated it. But we found 80 other instances of DOGE linking to earlier modified versions when newer versions exist. wapo.st/3DcnJcP

Congrats to 2025 Shadid Award finalists, Sari Horowitz, @dana-thereporter.bsky.social, Scott Higham, Emmanuel Martinez, @joyceshlee.bsky.social, @abtran.bsky.social, Nilo Tabrizy, Salwan Georges & Jahi Chikwendiu for this @washingtonpost.com investigation: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

And with the suspension of aid for Agent Orange victims, along with efforts to find and identify Vietnam’s missing war dead, Mr. Trump has essentially stalled 30 years of progress in bringing together former enemies. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/w...