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Melissa Lewis’s Biography

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My academic background is in research science, but my professional background is primarily in programming and data analysis. It is primarily these skills that I bring to The Oregonian.

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Take a deeper look at the numbers behind Portland police arrests of homeless people

Take a deeper look at the numbers behind Portland police arrests of homeless people

The Oregonian/OregonLive found that 52 percent of arrests Portland police made last year were of homeless peo…

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Portland homeless accounted for majority of police arrests in 2017, analysis finds

Portland homeless accounted for majority of police arrests in 2017, analysis finds

One in every two arrests made by the Portland Police Bureau last year was of a homeless person, an analysis b…

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Interactive map: Portland schools hit by churn

Interactive map: Portland schools hit by churn

I performed data cleaning and analysis for a map that allows you to see the student turnover rate at any neig…

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Portland's gang list

Portland's gang list

Portland police listed 359 people gang members as of August. Gang officers say the list is neither comprehens…

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Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science

Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science

One of the central goals in any scientific endeavor is to understand causality. Experiments that seek to demo…

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Interactive Map: America's contaminated armories

Interactive Map: America's contaminated armories

Performed data cleaning, analysis and visualization for reporting and interactive.

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Billionaires Know Just How They Want Supreme Court Justices to Rule—and Are Spending Big to Tell Them

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By Melissa Lewis Verified, Pema Levy Verified
| Mother Jones Verified
Last June, the Supreme Court gave a gift to the fossil fuel industry, whose proceeds have not only lined the pockets of some of the United States’ wealthiest men, but which those men have in turn invested in the creation of a right-wing Supreme Court. In Diamond Alternative Energy v. EPA, seven justices made it easier for the industry to sue the government over regulations it dislikes, granting polluters access to the courts that the justices have routinely denied to ordinary Americans.
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How to get away with anything: Trump’s sordid year of pardons

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By Melissa Lewis Verified, Daniel Moattar
| Mother Jones Verified
In medieval England, there was no law if your pockets were deep. Crimes had fixed costs: A couple of hundred gold coins got you off the hook if you killed a poor man; 2,000 if you killed a rich one. America’s founders imagined a different way forward. In their debates about the pardon power, Edmund Randolph, later the first attorney general, demanded an exception for treason. “The President may himself be guilty,” he objected.
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Find Your Lost Google Videos

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By Melissa Lewis Verified, Ashley Cleek
| Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting Verified
When Google announced it was shutting down Google Video in 2011, that left untold numbers of videos in internet limbo. On this week’s Reveal, we are telling a very different kind of story: investigations into questions that might be inconsequential in the grand scheme of things but matter quite a bit to one person. We went looking for an old short film, made by Garrison Hayes, that disappeared when Google Video shut down.
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