Data isn't this

It's this

An Example

Five Minutes of Searching Reveal...

• In 3 weeks, Newark went from 20 percent behind previous year’s murder pace to 10 percent ahead. (NJAM data)
• West Ward’s 7th murder of month (NPD data)
• Similar signs of progress were scuttled by bloody month at end of 2015. (NJSP)
• While Newark has shown signs of renaissance, West Ward has not. 50%+ poverty rate. (Census) 

Data and the Pulitzers

80% of winners had a major data element

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