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About Tyche Insights
- What is Tyche Insights?
- What is the purpose of Tyche Insights?
- Who contributes to Tyche Insights and why?
- What is the licensing and copyright of Tyche Insights content?
- Who reads and uses Tyche Insights content?
Search for data stories & data journalism
As we launch Tyche Insights we begin with a set of content that we have populated for Albany, New York. These are stories that analyze the City of Albany's housing, crime, population, taxes, state funding and more. To understand the types of stories that you will see over time (and potentially to give you some ideas on data stories that you can write!), search using terms such as "Albany", "Crime", "Finance" and more.
We also have the concept of a "Hub" where a group is focused on a broader storytelling effort.
As more stories get added to Tyche Insights we will provide additional cues on interesting search terms.
Interested in Contributing? Start Here
- The basics
- Start with a question, start with data
- Data storytelling resources
- Acquiring public data
- Wrangle the data
- Analyze the data
- Identify your findings
- Contextualize your findings
- Write the story
- Create the visualizations and exhibits
- Write the conclusion
- Review the content
- Research notes
- Publishing data stories
Want to talk to a human about Tyche Insights?
You're interested in writing your first story. You're interested in discussing a challenge that you've had in obtaining the right data. You want to field test an idea for analysis. You want to discuss using a data story because you're a (journalist | academic | nonprofit ).
We're here for the conversation. Click this link to schedule 15 minutes with the Tyche Insights team. Whether you want to understand who is behind Tyche, how to FOIL data, get ideas on different topics or more... we will listen and answer any questions that you have. You will be asked to confirm your email address; please check your spam email if you do not receive a confirmation code right away.
Acquiring and understanding Public Data
Are you interested in a particular topic or do you want to examine a particular type of public data? We provide a guide to common datasets that data storytellers use:
- Audited financial statements
- Budget data
- Building permit data
- Business data
- Crime data
- Healthcare data
- Tax abatement data
- Tax roll or Assessment data
- Vendor and procurement data
Tyche Talk Pages
Want to ask questions, share ideas, discuss policy and approaches? We have set up Talk pages for all of these. Each of these are a subject-specific discussion forum:
- Talk - Announcements
- Talk - Determining where to start
- Talk - Acquiring data
- Talk - Working with raw data
- Talk - Analyzing data
- Talk - Getting started
- Talk - How do I...
- Talk - Review requests
Data news story conventions
Data news story how-to
- Access our document with links to many how-to documents