User contributions for KarlTyche

1 July 2025

• 13:2713:27, 1 July 2025 diff hist +70 Albany, New York Vacant Buildings →Where are the vacant buildings? Tag: Visual edit
• 13:2513:25, 1 July 2025 diff hist +64 N File:Vacant2.png No edit summary current
• 13:2413:24, 1 July 2025 diff hist −25 Albany, New York Vacant Buildings No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
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• 13:2213:22, 1 July 2025 diff hist +8,691 N Albany, New York Vacant Buildings Created page with " Category:Albany_NY == How many vacant buildings does Albany have? == Walk or drive around Albany and you’ll see the red X sign on the front of some buildings. Frequently dilapidated, sometimes merely obviously vacant, the red X assists emergency services workers in knowing which buildings are vacant and potentially hazardous. The red X also conveys blight and is frequently the ire of the neighborhood. Red X buildings can exist in the middle of upscale neighb..."
• 13:1813:18, 1 July 2025 diff hist −756 Main Page →Getting started Tag: Visual edit
• 13:1513:15, 1 July 2025 diff hist +58 Main Page →Interested in Contributing? Start Here Tag: Visual edit
• 13:1213:12, 1 July 2025 diff hist +34 TycheManual:Writing No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
• 13:1213:12, 1 July 2025 diff hist +861 N TycheManual:Writing Created page with " We use the adage “write the story that you would want to read.” We recommend the following as a part of your story and creation process: * Provide background and context - on the geography, on the subject matter, on policy related to your subject, and any other relevant information that will assist the reader * Disambiguate the acronyms and jargon by providing just-in-time definitions and even a glossary if required * Describe your data sources and process at a..." Tag: Visual edit
• 13:0913:09, 1 July 2025 diff hist +761 N TycheManual:Contextualizing Created page with "“57% of my city’s <X’s> are <O’s>” “So what?” As data storytellers we can help our readers understand if certain data points are meaningful, extraordinary and/or merely aligned with a norm. We do this by bringing in comparisons. Where possible, introduce comparisons that help to inform: * Compare your data and findings against a neighboring community or communities * Compare your data and findings against nationwide or statewide statistics * Compare yo..." Tag: Visual edit
• 13:0713:07, 1 July 2025 diff hist +1,037 N TycheManual:Findings Created page with "After your analysis you’re ready to think about the preliminary punchlines. As we will point out in numerous places a data story does not need to be an exposé. Rather a data story should inform, educate and have a reader walk away feeling smarter. Let’s use an example. If you live in a city you may know that a portion of your taxes are spent on road construction, fixing potholes and installing sidewalks, however you (and likely most people) have no idea what t..." Tag: Visual edit
• 13:0413:04, 1 July 2025 diff hist +966 N TycheManual:DataAnalysis Created page with " You may have started to data storytell through one of two paths. You might have started with an idea or concept for analysis and, from there, identified one or more relevant public datasets. Conversely you may have found a dataset and wondered what you may be able to achieve looking at the dataset. Put another way, your interest could demand-side (“I have a question, let me find the data”) or supply-side (“I have data, what questions can I answer with it?”)...." Tag: Visual edit
• 12:5912:59, 1 July 2025 diff hist +688 N TycheManual:DataWrangling Created page with " There is no preferred tool for data storytelling. You may use Excel, a database, Google Sheets, programming and statistical tools (R, Python NumPy and SciPy), data flow tools and more. The tools you use can be governed by what you are comfortable with or what you want to learn. The data that you are analyzing, or the analysis that you are going to do could guide you to a specific tool. As you acquire the data from an open data site or through a public data request, a..."
• 12:5512:55, 1 July 2025 diff hist +194 Main Page →Interested in Contributing? Start Here Tag: Visual edit
• 12:5212:52, 1 July 2025 diff hist −1 Main Page No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
• 12:4912:49, 1 July 2025 diff hist +28 Main Page →Interested in Contributing? Start Here Tag: Visual edit
• 12:4912:49, 1 July 2025 diff hist +4 TycheManual:ResearchNotes No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
• 12:4712:47, 1 July 2025 diff hist +772 N TycheManual:ResearchNotes Created page with " We want every data storyteller to preserve the process that they used. Visibility into the processes that you use provides a few benefits - it speaks to the credibility of our work, it enables future updates of the article w/ new data, and it assists with the editorial review. Importantly, others may want to leverage the process and tools that you create to tell their story. A process document can be of any format - it could be a Word doc, Google doc, notes in a Ju..."
• 12:4612:46, 1 July 2025 diff hist +17 Main Page →Interested in Contributing? Start Here Tag: Visual edit
• 12:4412:44, 1 July 2025 diff hist −79 TycheManual:TopLevelGuidance No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
• 12:4312:43, 1 July 2025 diff hist +50 Main Page →Interested in Contributing? Start Here Tag: Visual edit
• 12:4212:42, 1 July 2025 diff hist +33 TycheManual:PublicData No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
• 12:4112:41, 1 July 2025 diff hist +1,005 N TycheManual:PublicData Created page with "In a perfect world, all public data is available for free and readily available on open data sites. We always point to Louisville’s open data site as an aspirational example for how a city handle’s open data. If you are able to draw from such a site that’s great - just track when you downloaded the data, its vintage, the URL and any other information you need to recollect your process. If open data is not available. you need to use a Freedom of Information Ac..."
• 12:3812:38, 1 July 2025 diff hist +67 m Main Page →Interested in Contributing? Start Here Tag: Visual edit
• 12:3612:36, 1 July 2025 diff hist +675 TycheManual:StorytellingResources Added in links Tag: Visual edit
• 12:3112:31, 1 July 2025 diff hist +1,622 N TycheManual:StorytellingResources Created page with " There are numerous resources that we can point out, if you need to learn about data storytelling or if you need a quick refresher: 1. Review some stories on USAFacts - they inspired Local Data Stories. We hope you can take both inspiration and practical advice from their stories. Look at both subjects that you are informed on and subject matter that is new to you. We found this story on mental health to be fascinating as an example of the latter (and a well-construc..."

30 June 2025

• 20:3220:32, 30 June 2025 diff hist +10 Main Page →Interested in Contributing? Start Here Tag: Visual edit
• 20:3120:31, 30 June 2025 diff hist +17 TycheManual:TopLevelGuidance Initial article Tag: Visual edit
• 20:2920:29, 30 June 2025 diff hist +1,681 N TycheManual:TopLevelGuidance Created page with " The purpose of this document is to provide potential or existing contributors with a high level view on what Local Data Stories cares about. Yes, we’ll have long-form docs that get into some of these however these are the more memorable tenants of what we’re doing Write the data story that you would want to read Public data - whether open data or difficulty obtained - is the primary fuel for our stories Unbiased stories - delivered with facts and context - are mo..."
• 20:2620:26, 30 June 2025 diff hist +67 Main Page →Local Data Stories Guardrails Tag: Visual edit
• 20:2520:25, 30 June 2025 diff hist +6,210 N TycheManual:UnbiasedStorytelling Initial document creation Tag: Visual edit
• 20:1820:18, 30 June 2025 diff hist +17 Main Page →Interested in Contributing? Start Here Tag: Visual edit
• 20:1720:17, 30 June 2025 diff hist +77 TycheManual:AI Added initial content Tag: Visual edit
• 20:1320:13, 30 June 2025 diff hist +2,858 N TycheManual:AI Creating initial page
• 20:1120:11, 30 June 2025 diff hist +96 Main Page No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
• 20:0120:01, 30 June 2025 diff hist +403 Hub:Albany Data Stories Added the social media links Tag: Visual edit
• 19:5719:57, 30 June 2025 diff hist +17 Hub:Albany Data Stories →Who are the authors?: added a link to KarlLDS Tag: Visual edit
• 19:5519:55, 30 June 2025 diff hist +170 N User:KarlTyche started the user page Tag: Visual edit
• 19:5319:53, 30 June 2025 diff hist +2,563 N Hub:Albany Data Stories Created page with "none|thumb|500x500px == What is Albany Data Stories? == Albany Data Stories uses public data to create non-partisan, unbiased stories about our government and our community of Albany, NY. We are launching with a dozen stories and will be adding new stories as we conduct additional analysis. Albany Data Stories is inspired by USAFacts. If you’re not familiar with USAFacts, it is a non-profit started in 2017 - their mission..." Tag: Visual edit
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• 19:4519:45, 30 June 2025 diff hist +81 m Main Page →About Local Data Stories Tag: Visual edit
• 19:4319:43, 30 June 2025 diff hist +80 m Main Page →Getting started: - Adding in framework for additional content on home page Tag: Visual edit
• 16:3016:30, 30 June 2025 diff hist +250 N Talk:Albany, New York Financial State →Finance Decoder: new section current Tag: New topic
• 16:2916:29, 30 June 2025 diff hist +101 Albany, New York Financial State Added in images to the article Tag: Visual edit
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• 16:2516:25, 30 June 2025 diff hist +53 Albany, New York Financial State No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
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• 16:2416:24, 30 June 2025 diff hist +11,013 N Albany, New York Financial State Created page with "== The City of Albany and the Strong Towns Finance Decoder == We wanted to find a way to view the health of the City of Albany’s finances over time and we found the Strong Towns Financial Decoder, which we will use in this article.   If you haven’t heard of [https://www.strongtowns.org/about Strong Towns], we love their vision “Your community needs you to be an effective advocate for change. We can help you get there” which is something that we relate to.  ..."
• 16:1616:16, 30 June 2025 diff hist +827 N Talk:Albany, New York Crime Trends →Initial Upload: new section current Tag: New topic