Using a map of the existing barriers between the U.S. and Mexico that our data team created, Reveal turns data into sound.
Michael Corey
Senior Data Editor
Michael Corey is a former senior data editor. He led a team of data journalists who seek to distill large datasets into compelling and easily understandable stories using the tools of journalism, statistics and programming. His specialties include mapping, the U.S.-Mexico border, scientific data and working with remote sensing. Corey's work has been honored with an Online Journalism Award, an Emmy Award, a Polk Award, an IRE Medal and other national awards. He previously worked for the Des Moines Register and graduated from Drake University.
Posted inAccountability, The Trump Era, The Wall
The Wall: Explore the US-Mexico border fence
Bids are out for President Donald Trump’s border wall and a draft plan envisions fencing and walls along at least 1,200 additional miles of the Mexican border by 2020. Here’s the status of the current border fence based on data we’ve been collecting and analyzing for years.
Posted inThe Trump Era, The Wall
The wall: Building a continuous US-Mexico barrier would be a tall order
We’ve been collecting and analyzing data on the current border for years now. Here’s a Q&A to help you understand the job the new president has ahead of him.
Posted inVoting
Wisconsin’s recount: How will it work?
Counties have 12 days to recount all their ballots from the Nov. 8 general election. Wisconsin was one of the closest states in the presidential election – only 22,177 out of nearly 3 million votes cast separated Donald Trump from Hillary Clinton in the official canvass.
Posted inSustainability, The Secrets of the Drought
Now this is a story all about how we found the Wet Princes of Bel Air
Reveal’s analysis found seven possible candidates for California’s biggest water user. Here’s how we did it.
Posted inSustainability, The Secrets of the Drought
Who is the Wet Prince of Bel Air? Here are the likely culprits
Los Angeles officials refused to identify the homeowner who used millions of gallons of water during a single year of California’s crippling drought.
Posted inEnvironment, Oil and Mining
Biggest Oklahoma earthquake in years damages town
The magnitude 5.6 quake’s epicenter was 8 miles northwest of Pawnee, a town that has about 2,000 residents.
Posted inInside the Newsroom
The sound of coal production using MIDITime
Jordan Wirfs-Brock at Inside Energy used our MIDITime Python library to make a great data sonification about a steep decline in coal production.
Posted inEnvironment, Oil and Mining
Oklahoma earthquakes: Regulators expand wastewater crackdown
Oklahoma regulators have called for more dramatic decreases in wastewater injection in the state’s oil fields, which have been blamed for a massive increase in earthquakes in the region.
Posted inLeft for Dead
How we built our tool to help match the missing and unidentified
Our goal with The Lost & The Found was to streamline the process of matching missing persons with the unidentified dead and create a tool could lead to more cases being solved.