Projects
Water and Power
Built the micro site for AfroLA's series on the controversies surrounding the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power's ownership of a substantial portion of Inyo County, CA. Worked with a talented team to bring designs to life and created a component-based system that would allow for quick and streamlined story layouts.
Water and Power
Used custom mapping and analysis to estimate populations living in each of Houston's neighborhoods in both 2010 and 2020 in order to talk about how each neighborhood has changed over time.
Houston crime analysis
Partnered with a crime reporter to explore the question: Has crime in Houston been getting worse? We realized that our readers didn't understand basic terms related to the National Incident Reporting System (NIBRS) so we took special care to explain key concepts about the system to facilitate their understanding of the data trends.
Public Media Covid-19 Tracker
Collaborated with fellow public media developers to build an auto-updating, county Covid-19 tracker. In addition to case and death data, the tracker pulls in data on at-risk populations to contextualize outbreak risk. This project is open source and available for anyone to replicate for their own state.
2020 Housing Security Indices
Sourced and combined multiple datasets to produce city rankings on the health of local housing. The indices provided a starting point for articles analyzing the most and least housing-secure cities.
2020 saw a historic decrease in traffic congestion, though not everywhere
Combined city-level data on traffic congestion patterns during Covid-19 with climate change mitigation reporting data to show that many cities with increased congestion during 2020 also do not publicly report mitigation goals.
Biden’s broadband plan comes at a pivotal moment for the digital divide
Used multiple internet speed and accessibility datasets to show that one of the US government’s primary sources for funding broadband expansion projects often understates broadband access, especially in large cities.
Ohio Watershed Safety Analysis
Analyzed FOIA and scraped data to reveal that while more hazardous materials are being shipped down the Ohio River, accidents due to high water are on the rise.
Mine Safety Debt Analysis
Analyzed and processed Mine Safety and Health Administration datasets to track millions of dollars worth of unpaid safety violations to West Virginia Governor Jim Justice. Also performed extensive data analysis to look at characteristics surrounding the unpaid fines, like injury rates and production.
Coal Ash Pollution Analysis
Cleaned, processed and analyzed hundreds of pages of water testing data to understand how coal ash storage affects groundwater. Also created an interactive map for users to explore water contamination results at specific power plants.
Trash and Poverty Analysis
Combined 311 data with trash can location data to find areas where there was both a deficit of public trash cans and a high number of 311 trash complaints.
Air Quality Interactive Map
Analyzed EPA Toxic Release Inventory data to reveal the biggest air polluters in Louisville disproportionately affect poor and black residents. Created an interactive map that would allow residents to input their address and receive a report of air pollutants near them.
Transportation Variation Google Map Animation
Created an interactive map using Google Maps API to illustrate the added time burden public transportation has on a person's life.
Kentucky Gubernatorial Candidate Text Analysis
Analyzed audio from interviews with 2019 Kentucky Gubernatorial candidates to get a sense of what candidate emphasized most when talking about a variety of issues important to voters.
Superfund Flooding Analysis
Used AP data to illustrate potential hazards to Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia residents living within one mile of superfund sites located in floodplains.
Good River Website
Co-built and designed (with Natasha Vicens) an NPR Interactives template website to feature stories and interactives created for the Good River collaborative.