4. Blog: Insights, Made Fresh Daily
Insights, Made Fresh Daily is my data visualization blog. I design and publish one new data visualization and data article here each day, every day.
4. INSIGHTS, MADE FRESH DAILY
Insights, Made Fresh Daily is my daily blog of data visualizations and data-based articles. I research publicly-available, open datasets—such as those published by the City of New York and the United Nations—and I use them to produce my own data graphics and concise articles. My goal as a data writer is to extract pieces of useful, practical information from those complex (and often enormous) datasets and then communicate to the reader what the data means and why it matters.
CURRENT PROJECT
January 1–JuNE 30, 2023
Exploring NYC Open Data: City Government
Previous PROJECTS
JULy 1–31, 2021
Challenges and Inequalities in Public Education
During the month of July 2021, I am using data analysis and visualization to explore the realm of public education. I am examining data on educational outcomes (such as graduation vs. dropout rates), spending on public education, public school staffing and the availability of educational services across different communities. Through these graphics, I aim to identify and surface some differences in both opportunity and outcome in the area of public education.
This collection of interactive maps shows where, geographically, alternative educational programs (such as vocational school, charter schools, magnet schools, etc.) are available in the United States.…Read More
There is a wide variance of average class sizes among states across the country.…Read More
Hawaii was the state with the highest percentage of non-white public school students with 88%…Read More
In public school reporting, “economic need” is defined by the percentage of students who qualify to receive a free or reduced price school lunch. The U.S. national average for economic need in public schools is 48%.…Read More
NYC charter high school students rarely dropped out of school…Read More
NYC charters graduated seniors at a higher rate than the citywide average…Read More
Most NYC charter school graduates earned standard Regents diplomas…Read More
As literacy rises, so does income…Read More
The racial composition of NYC public high schools…Read More
Education outcomes in NYC public high schools…Read More
In 2019, the State of New York awarded financial aid to more than 250,000 college students…Read More
Using boxplots to reveal what’s typical and what’s an outlier…Read More
Public education budgets as a percentage of GDP…Read More
This exploratory data analysis examines a dataset of information on public schools in the City of New York…Read More
The secondary school outcomes of NYC students…Read more
The demographic makeup of each NYC school district…Read more
The NYC Department of Education accounted for more spending than any other city department…Read more
Charter schools dominate the conversation, but not the enrollment numbers…Read more
The City of New York has its sights set on some lofty goals…Read more
Students entering 9th grade in 2014 took varied paths…Read more
How NYC high schools measure up in comparison to their peers…Read more
Counterintuitively, student-to-teacher ratios were not a reliable predictor of exam success…Read More
New York City’s high schools are producing more graduates In recent years…Read More