Kae Petrin

Why aren’t journalists quoting trans people about executive orders that challenge our existence?

Using unified shapefiles, voter registrations, and PostgreSQL to evaluate voters' likelihood of being blocked from casting a full ballot.

LGBTQ+ insanlarına dair veriler sınırlı, tutarsız ya da veri gazetecilerinin alışkın olduğu metodolojik titizlikten yoksun olabilir. Ancak günün sonunda, iyi bir LGBTQ+ veri gazeteciliği yapmak, aslında iyi veri gazeteciliği yapmaktır.

داده‌ها درباره اعضای جامعه ال‌جی‌بی‌تی‌کیوپلاس گاه کمیاب و متناقضند و یا از نظر روش‌شناختی، دقت کمتری نسبت به داده‌هایی داشته دارند که خبرنگاران عموماً به آنها استناد می‌کنند. اما در پایان کار، تهیه گزارش‌های خوبِ داده-محور از جامعه ال‌جی‌بی‌تی‌کیوپ

有关 LGBTQ+ 社群的数据可能稀缺、不一致，或其收集方法上不如记者习惯依赖的数据般严格。但归根究底，做好 LGBTQ+ 数据新闻就是要做好数据新闻。 除了关于如何处理这类数据的建议之外，我们（Kae Petrin 和 Jasmine Mithani）还想分享分享对相关伦理和概念问题的想法，以及这些想法可以如何转化为严格的数据驱动新闻闻报道。 以下是我们按 LGBTQ+ 数据製作故事提案和框架的经验启示：

Os dados sobre a população LGBTQ+ podem ser escassos, inconsistentes ou menos rigorosos metodologicamente em relação ao que os jornalistas de dados já estão acostumados. Mas, no fim das contas, fazer um bom jornalismo de dados LGBTQ+ é simplesmente

The first quarter 2024 edition of The IRE Journal looks at education — with tips for education beat coverage, investigative reporting on schools and lessons from the late Philip Meyer. Each print issue of The Journal features centerpiece stories and…

Features Concepts and methods to help you do rigorous journalism even when the data is tricky, Part 2 data LGBTQ+ coverage Data about LGBTQ+ people has gotten more plentiful as census collections in the U.S. and internationally have added surveys and…

Features Concepts and methods to help you do rigorous journalism even when the data is tricky, Part 1 data LGBTQ+ coverage Data on LGBTQ+ people can be scarce, inconsistent, or less methodologically rigorous than what data journalists are used to…

Here are the worst things we did to process education data this year. Published Dec 19th, 2023 As data journalists, we’re used to patching together a workflow from whatever tools we can lay our hands on, but there’s a fine line between Macgyver and…

Published Sep 26th, 2023 Municipal and state data is often imperfect. At its best, it’s riddled with suppression, missing values, or missing important categories or identifiers. At its worst, agencies export and maintain it incorrectly — it’s full of…

Data journalists often talk about the importance of documenting our analytical processes, so we know what we’ve done and why. Sure, we may record our methods, but sometimes we skip the question that comes first: How do we know that our logic was…

Last year, Tennessee enacted a law intended to restrict K-12 classroom discussions about the legacy of slavery, racism, and white privilege. Then Williamson County Schools, a district south of Nashville, received forty complaints about texts in its…

Applying ArchieML to the dailygraphics rig for mobile-friendly, accessible interactives COVID-19 protocols in schools have changed at a dizzying pace since school began in the fall. The rules and regulations have also bordered on arcane, with their…

While reporting on New Jersey’s Malcolm X Shabazz High School, Chalkbeat reporter Patrick Wall sent the Newark Police Department a FOIA to obtain data on police calls. The police sent back the PDF shown at the top of this post. My first instinct was…