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Reporting Recipe: How to Investigate Health Professionals
Today we're launching two guides to help researchers, journalists and citizens check the license and disciplinary records of medical professionals in every state. One is for doctors, the other for...
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What I Learned From My Fellowship at ProPublica
This story was co-published with Data Journalism China.Like a lot of my classmates at Columbia, I had been following the work of ProPublica's news applications desk since I started learning data...
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Form 990 Documents Return to Nonprofit Explorer
Today we released an update to our Nonprofit Explorer database and API. It includes updated organization profiles and — more significantly — has re-enabled links to Form 990 document PDFs. Those links...
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One Year, 2,000+ Downloads: Here’s How Our Data Store Is Doing
ProPublica’s Data Store opened for business nearly a year ago. Our two goals when we launched were to centralize and help people make better sense of the free datasets we make available, and to...
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Antebellum Data Journalism: Or, How Big Data Busted Abe Lincoln
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On Repeat: How to Use Loops to Explain Anything
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View ArticleIntroducing FEC Itemizer: A Tool to Research Federal Election Spending
The Federal Election Commission has long made filings that show federal candidates’ fundraising and spending available to the public. But it’s not always easy to find the latest information, such as...
View ArticleThe Stories of Everyday Lives, Hidden in Reams of Data
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View ArticleA More Secure and Anonymous ProPublica Using Tor Hidden Services
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View ArticleLearn Data, Design and Code for Journalism. Apply for ProPublica’s Summer...
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View ArticleMeet the New ProPublica Campaign Finance API, Same as the Old API
Beginning today, ProPublica is launching a Campaign Finance API to help researchers, journalists and software developers cover election fundraising and expenditures. An API, or Application Programming...
View ArticleUpgrading FEC Itemizer for the 2016 Campaign
We’ve upgraded our FEC Itemizer interactive database to make it faster, particularly when displaying individual contribution and expenditure records. It’s now integrated directly into the database...
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How We Made Hell and High Water
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View ArticleFollowing the Money is Now Easier with FEC Itemizer
PACs, super PACs and nonprofit committees have spent at least $283 million influencing the presidential race so far. Today we’re announcing changes to our FEC Itemizer database that will help you stay...
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Infographics in the Time of Cholera
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View Article8 Tips on Getting a Newsroom Data Team Started
This story was co-published with Nieman Lab. Thursday morning, a post by journalist Miguel Paz on a data-journalism email list asked for tips for starting a data-journalism team. I had many thoughts...
View ArticleA New Way to Keep an Eye on Who Represents You in Congress
Today ProPublica is launching a new interactive database that will help you keep track of the officials who represent you in Congress. The project is the continuation of two projects I worked on at...
View ArticlePresenting Hell and High Water VR
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View ArticleSunlight Labs Takeover Update
Last month we took over five projects that were created by The Sunlight Foundation. Here’s an update on where those projects stand now and our future plans for them. Sunlight Labs shuttered on Nov....
View ArticleProPublica’s on IFTTT
div.content-inset { display: none; } One of the Sunlight Foundation projects that ProPublica adopted late last year is a service that you can use to be notified when some key things happen in...
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