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Magic Spreadsheets That Equip the Public
Use these tools and techniques to bring “receipts from streets” with little-to-no code
Challenging technology to serve the public good.
Leon Yin translates story ideas into testable hypotheses—the cornerstone of our journalism. He builds bespoke datasets and uses interdisciplinary methods to report on technology. Leon left The Markup in July 2023.
His reporting of Google search’s self-referential results was cited in the opening remarks of a congressional hearing on tech giants and antitrust. In 2022, he won a Gerald Loeb Award for Personal Finance and Consumer Reporting with Adrianne Jeffries for their series, “Amazon’s Advantage.”
Before joining The Markup, he was a research scientist at NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics, a research affiliate at the Data & Society Research Institute, and a software engineer at NASA.
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Use these tools and techniques to bring “receipts from streets” with little-to-no code
Build Your Own Dataset
All you need to test for disparities in internet speeds and pricing is a computer, internet access, a Google account, and some free time
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Explore The Markup’s interactive map to see where AT&T, CenturyLink, and Verizon offered only slow internet speeds in major U.S. cities
LevelUp
A tutorial on how to build datasets from the hidden feeds powering almost every website on the internet
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Easily sample random U.S. street addresses using this new tool from Big Local News and The Markup
Story Recipes
We analyzed more than 800,000 internet service offers in major U.S. cities. Here’s how you can use our data to report local stories
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AT&T, Verizon, EarthLink, and CenturyLink disproportionately offered the worst deals to lower-income areas and communities of color across the country—while charging the same for faster speeds in higher-income and Whiter areas
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An investigation by The Markup found that AT&T, Verizon, EarthLink, and CenturyLink disproportionately offered lower-income and least-White neighborhoods slow internet service for the same price as speedy connections they offered in other parts of town
Citizen Browser
The ads appear as the company faces criticism for limiting content about medication abortions
Citizen Browser
Facebook pledged to remove race, health conditions, and political affiliation from ad-targeting options, but The Markup found advertisers can still easily target the same people
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