Notes from the Classroom

NYC public schools serve more than 1.1 million students. Of these, 85% are students of color. Yet only 40% of teachers are people of color.

Mental health is a topic I’m very interested in. When this dataset of Psychology Today therapists came into my inbox I knew I had to dive…

Mayor Bill de Blasio boasted 34,000 units of affordable housing in 2018, but many say that the city’s new additions to residential…

For colleges and universities with the largest endowments — Harvard, MIT and Texas A&M, to name a few — where funding comes from can be a…

I interviewed the death row data set from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

I had to find the number of evictions per 100 businesses. I found the number of businesses using the U.S. Census Bureau’s data.

Chemical spills are things most people only see on TV, but they happen with surprising regularity in real life.

A robocall is an automated telephone call which delivers a recorded message. The FTC receives thousands of complaints about it.

A lot has been said about the way Trump tweets. From ‘covfefe’ to capitalizations that can give you a headache — everything that comes…

A data analysis of Alaska, California, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, the top 5 states for air pollution.

IDPs, also know as internally displaced persons, is not a common term used in the news; however, it’s a situation that affects nearly 40…

What makes a country’s health care system good or bad?

While looking for tons of data for my data presentation, my first set of data was the most popular baby names from 2011–2016 by gender and…

Facebook ads make up just a fraction of what a candidate for president might spend on his or her campaign, but they’re not small beans.

This templates have been summarized by professionals who work with data, develop news applications and civic data projects. Focused on data…

Layoffs and job losses have been a big part of the story when it comes to most major industries over the last decade, peaking in the wake…

Note from the editor: Allen Arthur is a M.A. in Social Journalism 16´ from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. He spent his year at the…

An explainer is a conversation, not a traditional article…