Stories about topics we think are important and other musings from our team.

5 Ways to Use Data Storytelling for Advocacy

Nonprofits are often wary of creating their own data visualizations, and for valid reasons. Setting up such a project can require a team of designers, developers, and coders to bring it to life. Unfortunately, many organizations and individuals that…

Exposing The World’s Superrich: GDP, Gender, And Political Ties

Latest Data Reveals the Actual Size of The Gender Gap at the Academy Awards

A data-driven analysis of…

Hack Your Career: How to Use Data to Monitor Job Markets

I recently gave a tutorial on how monitor job markets by scraping data from AngelList and pushing it into the data publishing platform Silk. Here’s the step-by-step tutorial on how to analyse the growth hacker job market to see…

Analyzing Tesla’s Supercharger Locations

As one of the earlier execs at PayPal, entrepreneur Elon Musk understands the value of…

Number of U.S. drone strike victims in Pakistan: 2,500–4000. Number of Fair Trials: 0

Latest Google Cars Crash Report

First accident reported since August but Google’s robot drivers maintain a spotless no-fault record. In the latest incident, a human rear-ended a Google Car.