Data
One option for promoting faster public Internet still on the table
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A bill to curb municipal access to private utility poles could limit towns’ ability to shape the future of Connecticut’s Internet infrastructure.
guns
Handgun permits rose 73 percent in Connecticut last year
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Handgun permits issued in Connecticut rose by 73 percent in 2016 over 2015, and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has proposed raising state pistol permitting fees, which the administration says will cover the increased cost of issuing firearms permits.
r
Tutorial: How to create R functions and packages
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In your data analysis process, do you find yourself repeating the same tasks over and over again? This tutorial will show you how to create a function and save it as a package in R.
Data
Bill would require agencies to inventory ‘high-value’ data
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A bill now in its early stages would put Connecticut’s open data practices — established in an executive order — on the law books for good.
Health Care
American Health Care Act: Who gains and loses in Connecticut?
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The Republican proposal to replace Obamacare has big implications for Connecticut residents depending on different factors like age and income level. Here’s how subsidies for buying health insurance would change in Connecticut.
bail
Bailing out: How many people are held at each pretrial phase
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There are a number of times when defendants are considered for bail, from police contact through trial, disposition and ultimately sentencing. Here’s how that shook out in 2014.
Data
In Connecticut, a formula helps make bail decisions
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The state’s bail system aims to protect public safety and make sure people show up for court using the “least restrictive” manner possible, so understanding the risks posed by each defendant is a key part of that system. It turns out, there’s a formula to help with that.
Politics
What it means to be a ‘sanctuary city’ in Connecticut
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What are they, and what policies do they follow that federal immigration authorities object to?
Crime
ACLU survey finds police complaint practices still deficient
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Police agencies across the state are breaking the law by failing to make policies for misconduct complaints accessible to the the public, according to a survey released today by the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut.
2017 legislative session
Tool update: Browse 2017 state legislative bills by subject
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The state’s 2017 legislative session is dominated by discussion related to the budget. But what other topics do Connecticut’s legislators spend time on?
Housing
Grand lists in most CT towns have shown a decrease since 2008
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Many towns experienced an increase in their grand list between 2013 and 2014 but the vast majority have declined since 2008, according to an analysis of recently released data from the Office of Policy and Management.
Walkthrough
A gentle introduction to APIs for data journalists
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API data can provide a rich source for journalists and data scientists, and I think I’ve found the simplest API on the web to get you started. In this article, we’ll take a REST API run by the FAA to provide airport status information and write an API wrapper for it so we can access the data in future code. You should have some comfort writing code, and experience with Python if you want to follow along but the principles can be applied in any programming language. Python is pretty readable if you can write code in any language.
Religion
Religion mapped across America’s counties
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December is a big month for religious followers. Evangelical Protestants outnumber other religious adherents in more than half the counties in the country, or about 1766. Catholics are second, with about 800 counties where they outnumber others. With the most followers in about 500 counties, Mainline Protestants is third.