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Essays using data and visualization to navigate issues concerning equity and society.

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July 22, 2026 Data

Massachusetts prosecutors run their offices on software from the dial-up era

Massachusetts put $100 million into AI while its District Attorneys run on a database from the early 2000s. I requested that database's records from all eleven offices. Here is what I found.

April 06, 2022 Data

Campaign Finance Contributions Clarify Elections

Campaign finance data provides a valuable and objective ground-truth to the horse race that is the political process. In Massachusetts, we can use it to understand what's happening on the ground in almost any race, in real time.

September 06, 2021 Data

2021 Boston Mayor Campaign Contributions

Nearly 40,000 donations have been made to Mayoral Candidates so far. Where are these donations coming from, and who are they going to? Let's take a look at the data.

August 17, 2021 Data

The 2020 U.S. Census Redistricting Data

On August 12th, 2021, the U.S. Census Bureau released detailed data about the population of the United States. This data is released in two formats. The data that has already been released is what's called a “legacy…