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Tiff Fehr

(She/Her)
New Jersey
As seen in: The New York Times
Covers:  Data journalism, data science, explanatory journalism, data visualization.
Doesn't Cover: Beat reporting
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How to Raise $89 Million in Small Donations, and Make It Disappear

How to Raise $89 Million in Small Donations, and Make It Disappear

The New York Times — A group of conservative operatives using sophisticated robocalls raised millions of dollars from donors using pro-police and pro-veteran messages. But instead of using the money to promote issues and candidates, an analysis by The New York Times shows, nearly all the money went to pay the firms making the calls and the operatives themselves, highlighting a flaw in the regulation of political nonprofits.
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Times Insider: Finding Order in a Thicket of Nonprofit Data

Times Insider: Finding Order in a Thicket of Nonprofit Data

The New York Times — To investigate the practices of a group of political nonprofits, we first needed to conquer a pesky foil of data journalists: the PDF.
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Maps: Tracking Air Quality and Smoke From Wildfires in Canada and the U.S.

Maps: Tracking Air Quality and Smoke From Wildfires in Canada and the U.S.

The New York Times — See maps of where smoke is traveling and how harmful the air has become.
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How Scalpers Make Their Millions With ‘Hamilton’

How Scalpers Make Their Millions With ‘Hamilton’

The New York Times — The departure of Lin-Manuel Miranda could mean lower demand for “Hamilton” tickets — and lower profits for ticket scalpers.
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The Upshot: To Learn About ‘Hamilton’ Ticket Bots, We Wrote Our Own Bot

The Upshot: To Learn About ‘Hamilton’ Ticket Bots, We Wrote Our Own Bot

The New York Times — We wanted to learn how bots worked in order to track the resale ticket prices for the Broadway hit musical.
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Times Insider: I Tracked and Tried to Outsmart ‘Hamilton’ Scalpers — With 341 Lines of Code

Times Insider: I Tracked and Tried to Outsmart ‘Hamilton’ Scalpers — With 341 Lines of Code

The New York Times — Tiff Fehr, an assistant interactive editor, describes how she estimated the profits made by those reselling tickets for the Broadway hit.
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NYT Open: Tracking Covid-19 From Hundreds of Sources, One Extracted Record at a Time

NYT Open: Tracking Covid-19 From Hundreds of Sources, One Extracted Record at a Time

The New York Times — How The New York Times maintains a database of United States coronavirus cases and deaths pulled from a patchwork of regional health authorities.
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GitHub - nytimes/covid-19-data

GitHub - nytimes/covid-19-data

github.com — A repository of data on coronavirus cases and deaths in the U.S. - nytimes/covid-19-data
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Times Insider: 10 Million Data Requests: How Our Covid Team Tracked the Pandemic

Times Insider: 10 Million Data Requests: How Our Covid Team Tracked the Pandemic

The New York Times — The project began 18 months ago as a simple concept: Count every known U.S. case at the time. When the virus grew exponentially, so did the efforts to document it.
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OpenNews Source: Building Better Story Formats for Live Coverage

OpenNews Source: Building Better Story Formats for Live Coverage

source.opennews.org — What we're using and testing, from live blogs to mobile alerts
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Explore Government Subsidies

Explore Government Subsidies

The New York Times — Browse a database of business incentives awarded by hundreds of cities, counties and states compiled during a 10-month investigation by The New York Times.
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How Restaurant Workers Help Pay for Lobbying to Keep Their Wages Low

How Restaurant Workers Help Pay for Lobbying to Keep Their Wages Low

The New York Times — The National Restaurant Association uses mandatory $15 food-safety classes to turn waiters and cooks into unwitting funders of its battle against minimum wage increases.
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Searching for Poetry in Prose (Published 2014)

Searching for Poetry in Prose (Published 2014)

The New York Times — Create your own blackout poem from a recent New York Times story.
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See Which Witnesses the Mueller Report Relied on Most (Published 2019)

See Which Witnesses the Mueller Report Relied on Most (Published 2019)

The New York Times — A partially redacted report of the special counsel's findings released on April 18 cited interviews with 43 individuals at least 10 times.
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Times Insider: How We Sped Through 900 Pages of Cohen Documents in Under 10 Minutes

Times Insider: How We Sped Through 900 Pages of Cohen Documents in Under 10 Minutes

The New York Times — A tool called DocumentHelper, developed by our Interactive News team, helped the reporters Benjamin Weiser and William K. Rashbaum find needles in a haystack.
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Advocate of Jan. 6 Rioters Now Runs Office That Investigated Them

Advocate of Jan. 6 Rioters Now Runs Office That Investigated Them

The New York Times — Ed Martin, a loyal Trump soldier, oversees the U.S. attorney’s office, which is likely to help turn the investigative powers of the government on several of the president’s perceived enemies. (Contributed data collection, transcription and analysis.)
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What Harris and Trump Say About Each Other (Published 2024)

What Harris and Trump Say About Each Other (Published 2024)

The New York Times — In the seven weeks they have been campaigning against each other, the vice president and the former president have attacked each other on social media dozens of times. Only Mr. Trump frequently gets personal. (Contributed to data collection, analysis and tooling driving this and similar stories.)
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Trump's Pattern of Sowing Election Doubt Intensifies in 2024 (Published 2024)

Trump's Pattern of Sowing Election Doubt Intensifies in 2024 (Published 2024)

The New York Times — A false, familiar claim by the former president - that the contest in which he's participating is "rigged" - has reached a fever pitch in this cycle. (Contributed to data collection, analysis and tooling driving this and similar stories.)
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