Archive

• Year 2008

  • December

    • Keeping tabs on Obama’s changes

    • Boot camp lessons used to unlock Oklahoma court secrets

    • Web project spotlights early voters

  • March

    • Firefox extensions: A geek’s new best friend

  • September

    • Death and the UNION clause

    • Presentations wanted for March CAR Conference

    • Student grades help show social promotion trends

    • Uncovering Obama’s special-interest money

    • Data scrubbing ID's college football players with criminal records

    • 'Patchwork Nation' offers election-year demographic snapshot

    • Welcome to the Uplink relaunch

  • October

    • Spatial queries unlock gas price trends

    • Quick hit reveals sick-pay cashouts

    • Federal safety data bolsters RV stories

    • Trade data reveals U.S.-Iran export boom

    • Overcome IT roadblocks with Amazon data services

  • November

    • Stories show nursing home shortcomings

    • Cleaning EPA’s dirty sewers data

    • Poorest players win less in NY lottery

    • Databases help show Rx troubles in Nevada

• Year 2007

  • March

    • Down on the farm - Reporting on migrant farm labor

    • Fluff rules in Puerto Rican Legislature

    • Hidden History: Census shows blacks driven from their homes

    • CAR book: Ver 1.0 scrutinizes data quality

    • Down on the farm - Resources for reporting on agriculture from IRE and NICAR

  • April

    • Down on the farm - Subsidies spread cash far from struggling farms

    • Down on the farm - Tracking cotton subsidies and learning SQL Server on the fly

    • Down on the farm - Farmsubsidy.org opens access to EU farm payments

  • June

    • Judges' financial conflicts draw little scrutiny

    • Dynamic Web maps show county-to-county migration

    • Data tallies growth of faith-based aid projects overseas

    • State and local races require do-it-yourself data

    • CDC reports yield data on outbreaks

    • Ohio's background checks miss older DUI arrests

    • Scraping barriers and how to avoid them

    • The scrutiny of lawyers

    • CAR helps sort 40 years of forms in village justice series

    • Many arrested, few jailed in child porn crackdown

  • August

    • Let OpenKapow robots do your scraping

    • Development trends collide with fire risks in West

  • October

    • City liability settlements worth a look

    • Searching the Social Web

  • December

    • Digging for data in a crisis: A view from Minneapolis

    • Minneapolis crisis highlights pros and cons of bridge database

    • Making every resource count: A view from St. Paul

    • Felons issued gun hunting licenses

    • Basic queries show nationwide trends in HMDA data

• Year 2009

  • January

    • Daycare centers lose kids

    • Where logging and landslides meet

    • SIDS series wins top honors in Meyer Awards