Archive

• Year 2010

  • August

    • Hot-pursuit story found in police electronic records

    • USDA data shows how bad food lands on school kids' trays

  • June

    • Tech Tip: Data Access With Python tuples

    • CAR Anywhere: Getting away with polluting

    • Importing RSS and ATOM feeds

    • Tech Tip: Google Spreadsheet data scraping

    • CAR Anywhere: For-hire charity fundraisers

    • Big Changes for 2010 Census Reporting

  • May

    • Race gaps in Ohio loans uncovered by stats analysis

  • April

    • My Favorite Access SQL trick: Using the MID function to rearrange dates

  • March

    • CAR Anywhere: Payroll data reveals OT pay leaders

  • February

    • Award winner: Missing gas-escrow payments uncovered with data matches

  • January

    • Tech Tip: Getting starting with PostGIS for geographic analysis

• Year 2009

  • November

    • Getting some help with open source GIS

    • New Jersey's Tax Crush

  • October

    • Sifting for recovery spending data on federal sites

    • Web maps localize Iowa air pollution story

    • The data behind "Toxic Waters"

  • September

    • Homemade database boosts disciplined nurses probe

    • Struggling schools get new teachers

  • August

    • That data state of mind

    • Making sense of incomplete bird-strike data

    • Getting a handle on local stimulus spending

  • July

    • Felon hunters story is off the table in Minnesota

    • EveryBlock Goes Open Source

    • HMDA data leads to meltdown's culprits

    • A Tale of Two Values: Using Logistic Regression

    • Links: Our CIO and Tufte

    • Finding holes in city property-managment system

    • Comparing people finders

  • June

    • Measuring crime in schools

    • Pharmaceuticals in the water

    • Future Tools: Some thoughts on the future of CAR

    • Yahoo! Placemaker

    • Little-used bridges get stimulus money

  • May

    • Journalists reconsider Web databases after gun-permit blowup

    • Building, mining, Taser report databases

    • Ga. test scores scrutinized

    • Senate Votes in XML

    • Newsrooms tap into open-source database managers

  • April

    • Many Eyes for quick, free data visualization

    • Q & A on getting health care data

    • Risk tool helps show schools' toxic threats

    • Three (more) good reasons to learn Linux

    • Checking up on volunteer fire companies

    • Computing Environments Built For You

    • Flood aid under scrutiny

    • Avoiding decimal-happy stories

  • March

    • Hospital records point to resistant infections

    • Majors similar for athletes