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
Infrastructure
Senators Ask Who Interrupted The Satellite, And The Investigation Has Better Uptime Than The Satellite
Jin-Ah Park measures the outage, finds causality unassigned and files the investigation as the paper's most reliable network.
Data
This Desk Asked Both Passengers For The Ninety Seconds, One Of Them Has Deleted It, And The Surviving Clip Is The One That Agreed
Jin-Ah Park reports that the two recordings became one, that the survivor is the agreeing one, and that the agreement was established after this desk made the call.
Data
Two Strangers Filmed The Same Ninety Seconds, This Desk Asked For Both Clips, And The Only Question Either Passenger Asked Is The One The Method Cannot Answer
Jin-Ah Park defines the window before looking at either recording, and works out what the study can say if the two records disagree with each other.
Data
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.
Data
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.
Data
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.
Data
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.