Highlighted Work
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What ProPublica Found in the Genetic Code of America’s Measles Outbreaks
Analyzed measles virus genomic sequences to identify a trail of breadcrumbs to trace the outbreak's spread, also presented as an interactive graphic.
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What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic
Investigation into how bird flu spread as egg prices spiked, and what the federal government failed to do to stop it.
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How ProPublica Investigated a Bird Flu Outbreak in America’s Heartland
Details the bird flu investigation's methodology of phylogenetic analysis, dust dispersion models, and efforts to identify which poultry farms in the region weren't infected.
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Private School Demographics
Tool to look up demographics of private schools across the country and see how they compare to the public schools nearby.
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527 Explorer
Project that standardized records of a special type of political fundraising organization and made them searchable.
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The 20 Farming Families Who Use More Water From the Colorado River Than Some Western States
Modeled irrigation water use down to the field-level in one of the thirstiest regions in the country.
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Turf Wars
Identified and classified every patch of grass in Las Vegas as its water officials looked to save every drop in the midst of a historic drought.
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This 500-Year-Old Tree in California Has a Story to Tell
Worked with a dendrochronologist to chronicle the Western United State's droughts via high-resolution imagery of tree rings.
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We Study Virus Evolution. Here’s Where We Think the Coronavirus Is Going.
Worked with computational biologists to show how SARS-CoV-2 could continue to mutate to evade immunity.
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Will We Struggle to Reach Herd Immunity?
Charticle on the first signs of difficulty in rolling out the vaccines against COVID-19.
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Failure Factories
Launched a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation with an interactive graphic showing how a Florida school district had failed its Black students.