Erin Kissane
The COVID Tracking Project
Seattle, WA, United States
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Past articles by Erin:
It’s Time: The COVID Tracking Project Will Soon Come to an End
Every day for almost a year, hundreds of COVID Tracking Project contributors from all walks of life have compiled, published, and interpreted vitally important COVID-19 data as a service to their fellow Americans. On March 7, the one-year anniversary of our founding, we will release our final daily update and our data compilation will stop. Documentation, analysis, and archival work will… → Read More
Daily COVID-19 Data Is About to Get Weird
Based on what we’ve seen over the last eight months of state-reported COVID-19 data, we think two big, potentially misleading things are about to happen to the testing, case, and death numbers that allow us to track the pandemic in the United States. First, by Thanksgiving Day and perhaps as early as Wednesday, all three metrics will flatten out or drop, probably for several days. This decrease… → Read More
How We Made Our School Segregation Interactive
We really appreciated Vox’s recent illustrated interactive on school segregation and gerrymandering—particularly because its creator, Alvin Chang, worked alongside Tomas Monarrez, a UC Berkeley economics PhD candidate. We’re often curious about fruitful crossovers between disciplines like journalism and academia. We also loved that, for readers, this project was both extremely local and deeply… → Read More
At the End of 2017
Thank you for everything. We're going to go lie down. → Read More
Mental Health Strategies for the Non-Invincible Newsroom
A brief interview with SRCCON:WORK speaker Erin Brown → Read More
Building Collaboration Without Surveillance
A brief interview with SRCCON:WORK speaker Mandy Brown → Read More
What Mentorship Means and Why It's Magic
A brief interview with SRCCON:WORK speaker Nicole Zhu → Read More
Data Stories That Aren't Downers
In which NICAR-L provides a big list of stories that might make you feel a little better → Read More
Wanted: Your Syllabi and Most-Shared Resources
Source Guides collect resources—from our archives and elsewhere—to help journalists do their work → Read More
Five Years, What a Surprise
We made a website and people showed up. → Read More
Visualizing Mass Shootings
Two years of interactives and data on gun killings in the US → Read More
All About the New ProPublica Site
David Sleight, ProPublica's director of design, breaks it down → Read More
Farewell, SRCCON 2017
Two days of work and culture sessions with newsroom nerds from all over → Read More
SRCCON Spotlight: Building a Culture of Documentation
Lauren Rabaino and Kelsey Scherer's session on making space and time to write it down → Read More
SRCCON Spotlight: Keeping Data Stories Human
William Wolfe-Wylie's 2016 session on representation in data journalism → Read More
Q&A with Emily Goligoski
Research at the NYT + the brand-new Membership Puzzle Project → Read More
Wanted: Security Pitches
Contribute to Security Week, coming to Source in June → Read More
Tracking the Trump Trackers
A meta-analysis of how US news orgs are following the president's political promises → Read More
Competition Be Damned
How reporters at the Washington Post, New York Times, ProPublica, and more self-organized to free trapped FEC data → Read More
Things You Made, March 28
Interactive features, project breakdowns, and best practices → Read More