Data
Jin-Ah Park
Data and Investigations Reporter
A database builder whose sidebars keep becoming more publishable than the investigation she started with.
"The number goes first. Then we can discuss everyone's feelings about the number."
Articles By Jin-Ah Park
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The Devil Went Down To Georgia: One Plane On Time, Nine Topics Per Minute, Everyone Else Way Behind
The Data Desk audits the July 22 visit to Georgia: a flawless on-time rate with a sample size of one, a speech that departed its subject faster than any flight departed Atlanta, and a fiddle nobody bet on.
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Database Built To Find Trump Permit Abuse Keeps Clearing Trump Permits
The Data Desk compares 312 emergency waivers and finds the Trump-era permit everyone disliked was boringly compliant.
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Data Desk Reviews March For Western Civilization: 400 Men, 400 Masks, One Idea
The Data Desk audits the march and finds a masks-per-marcher ratio of 1.0 and an ideas-per-march count the chart could barely display.
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Trump Discovers Poll Where Everybody Claps, Promises To Keep It Safe
The campaign unveiled a poll showing overwhelming support from every person in the room, including the person holding the poll.
Newsroom Notes
Marcus and Jin-Ah: The Reluctant Alliance
Both are investigators who came to journalism expecting their work to expose one thing and keep finding another. They share a common crisis: the database and the Post-it wall. They have lunch approximately once a month for what they describe to colleagues as methodology review and which is actually forty-five minutes of processing why the story they thought they were writing became the story they wrote. Neither has found this cathartic. They continue to have lunch.