Data story · Columbia University · 2022
New Jersey public schools show pandemic recovery
My Columbia master's project. An analysis of 668 school districts on six performance measures found that 62% improved on most of them, while college enrollment fell almost everywhere and gains tilted toward wealthier districts.
Read the story →Agora Journalism Center
Interactive maps I built for the Center's statewide assessment of Oregon's local news and information ecosystem.
Local News Ecosystem in Oregon
A scrolling map story that walks through the assessment's findings: 241 outlets producing original local news in 97 Oregon cities, how they are owned, and the counties left with one or two sources.
Oregon's Local News Media Ecosystem: Unequal Distribution
A clickable map of every outlet in the database, sized by circulation or audience and set against county population density.
Broadcast
Interviews, investigations and bulletins from TV3, 3News and JoyNews in Accra.
One-on-one with CPP presidential candidate Ivor Greenstreet
Election 2020 coverage, TV3, September 2020
APC leader Hassan Ayariga on his party's 2020 manifesto
Election 2020 coverage, TV3, 2020
Hot Issues with Dr. S. K. B. Asante
On Ghana's Constitution Day. TV3, January 2020
Hot Issues with Bright Simons of IMANI
On the review of the Communications Service Tax. TV3, December 2019
Research on MPs' performance ahead of the 2020 elections
3News, June 2019
COVID-19 update: Obuasi case count jumps
Pandemic health reporting. 3News
School Feeding in Retrospect
Corruption allegations, with the former program manager. PM Express, JoyNews, September 2012
GH₵80,000 Kickback
Corruption allegations in sports administration and public viewing center contracts. Today's Big Story, JoyNews, December 2014
Personality Profile Friday with Rosa Whitaker
Former U.S. Assistant Trade Representative for Africa. PM Express, JoyNews, April 2013
Street Naming and House Numbering in Ghana
Documentary on a World Bank project. JoyNews
Also: Election Watch, a four-part data-driven forecast series for Ghana's 2020 elections, produced with University of Ghana statisticians and political scientists (TV3, 2020). Episodes 1, 2, 3, and 4.
Data journalism
Stories, maps and graphics from my data journalism training at Columbia University.
FOIA requests left waiting for years
Interactive graphic built with ai2html
You are more likely to crash in Brooklyn
NYC crash data, 2016 to 2021
Yam prices in Ghana at a five-year low
World Food Programme price data
The 2020 U.S. presidential election by county
Interactive Mapbox map, 2022
What U.S. counties do for a living
Interactive Mapbox maps of county economic types and of disasters worldwide
China and the world's forest change, 1990 to 2015
Scrollytelling with FAO data