The Texas Tribune's data visuals team produced impactful stories covering elections, housing, border wall construction, and education.
The Texas Tribune ’s data visuals team worked on some of the most important stories this year. Our data journalists helped cover a consequential election, reported on the impacts of unaffordable housing, looked at the state’s attempt to build a wall along the southern border and much more. Here are some of our best stories this year.
One story explained how only a fraction of voters decide who wins elections and runs the state, using visuals that metaphorically show voters as how much of a proposed border wall the state has built along the Texas/Mexico border. The team that worked on this story found the state has spent billions of dollars over the course of three years building a barrier that is still far short of its goal. We also took big swings covering housing problems in Texas. In the spring, Andrew helped answer if Republican efforts to decrease have been successful. Carla, for months, gathered and analyzed zoning data from 11 cities across the state to help report on Texas’ Education was another topic we covered in detail this year. Dan, along with other reporters on the investigative unit, reported on school districts who were violating a Meanwhile, education data developer Rob Reid has been working on building education data resources that will help push our Texas schools coverage in groundbreaking ways. His first focus is analyzing public school budget data and understanding how local schools budget and spend the money they have available to them. Texans need truth. Help us report it. Independent Texas reporting needs your support. The Texas Tribune delivers fact-based journalism for Texans, by Texans — and our community of members, the readers who donate, make our work possible. Help us bring you and millions of others in-depth news and information. Will you support our nonprofit newsroom with a donation of any amount
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