Small, self-contained explorations of public data.
Every US road death since 2000, browsable by who died, what struck them, where, and on what kind of road — with the exposure data that turns a count into a rate.
The political geography of American campaign money: candidates placed by who funds them and by their own words, 2016–2026.
Every US private foundation that e-files — 150,000 of them, 11.6M itemized grants — with payout rates against the 5% minimum, trustees, restriction labels, and a page for every grant recipient.
Every US housing start since 1889 — by structure type, region, builder, and funding source — assembled from the modern Census series and hand-transcribed postwar ledgers, with a story page on how homebuilding changed in the 1970s.
Forty years of Forbes billionaire lists read against the Federal Reserve: how many there are, how they got their money, what share of American wealth they hold, and why young American billionaires built companies while young European billionaires inherited them.
What do graduates of each school actually go on to do? Every four-year college in America, seen through government earnings records and the life stories of every alumnus notable enough for a Wikipedia article.