Data Is Plural

From Government Contracting to TV Shows Cut Short

This week’s roundup of notable datasets

Hello World

Help Make Everyone Cool It with the Data Collection (Starting with Kroger)

Price check on grocery giants’ data collection

LevelUp

Journalists, You Should Be Looking for Undocumented APIs. Here’s How to Start

A tutorial on how to build datasets from the hidden feeds powering almost every website on the internet

Still Loading

Introducing the United States Place Sampler (USPS)

Easily sample random U.S. street addresses using this new tool from Big Local News and The Markup

Data Is Plural

From Congressional Votes to Coconut Thumps

This week’s roundup of notable datasets

Story Recipes

Journalists: Investigate Homeless Vulnerability Scoring in Your City

The survey we investigated was also used in dozens of other cities and counties, according to its creators. Here are our tips for looking into it

L.A.’s Scoring System for Subsidized Housing Gives Black and Latino People Experiencing Homelessness Lower Priority Scores

An investigation by The Markup found racial disparities in L.A.’s intake system for unhoused people

Show Your Work

How We Investigated L.A.’s Homelessness Scoring System

Year after year, White people have been rated highly “vulnerable” more often than Black people

Inside The Markup

Lam Thuy Vo Joins The Markup

The Markup welcomes Lam to our team of investigative reporters

Hello World

Section 230 Is a Load-Bearing Wall—Is It Coming Down?

A conversation with James Grimmelmann and Kate Klonick