paldhous
Lecturer UC Santa Cruz Science Communication Program. Freelance data, science, and investigative reporter. Formerly @BuzzFeedNews, UC Berkeley J-School.
San Francisco
Pinned Repositories
2016-04-federal-surveillance-planes
The data and analysis referenced in the Apr. 6, 2016 BuzzFeed News article, "Spies in the Skies." https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/spies-in-the-skies
2017-08-spy-plane-finder
The data and analysis referenced in the Aug. 7, 2017 BuzzFeed News article, "BuzzFeed News Trained A Computer To Search For Hidden Spy Planes. This Is What We Found." https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/hidden-spy-planes
2018-07-wildfire-trends
Data and R code to reproduce graphics in the Jul. 28, 2018 BuzzFeed News post "How A Booming Population And Climate Change Made California’s Wildfires Worse Than Ever" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/california-wildfires-people-climate
2021-05-tx-winter-storm-deaths
Data and R code to reproduce the analysis underlying "The Graveyard Doesn't Lie," a May 26, 2021 BuzzFeed News article on the excess deaths caused by the February 2021 winter storm and power outages in Texas.
2019-05-political-twitter
climate-change
The heat is on for the planet as a whole, but what has been happening where you live?
climate-files
Web app made with Mapbox and Highcharts allowing users to see how temperature has changed from 1880 to 2022 at any place on the globe according to NASA's GISTEMP analysis.
datacanvas-sensorlog
App deloyed at: https://paldhous.shinyapps.io/datacanvas-sensor/
NICAR
refine-geocoder
JSON to geocode list of addresses in Open Refine, using Bing and OpenStreetMap Nominatim APIs
paldhous's Repositories
paldhous/refine-geocoder
JSON to geocode list of addresses in Open Refine, using Bing and OpenStreetMap Nominatim APIs
paldhous/NICAR
paldhous/climate-files
Web app made with Mapbox and Highcharts allowing users to see how temperature has changed from 1880 to 2022 at any place on the globe according to NASA's GISTEMP analysis.
paldhous/2019-05-political-twitter
paldhous/2021-11-climate-tracker
paldhous/bami-cdc-covid
paldhous/bami-data
paldhous/ucsc
paldhous/ucsc-visualj
paldhous/2018-01-trump-twitter-wars
R code to reproduce this Jan. 23, 2018 BuzzFeed News analysis of a year of tweets from President Donald Trump and all members of Congress: https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/trump-twitter-wars
paldhous/2018-07-wildfire-trends
Data and R code to reproduce graphics in the Jul. 28, 2018 BuzzFeed News post "How A Booming Population And Climate Change Made California’s Wildfires Worse Than Ever" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/california-wildfires-people-climate
paldhous/2018-08-charlottesville-twitter-trolls
Data and R code to reproduce the analysis and graphics in the Aug. 10, 2018 BuzzFeed News post "Russian Trolls Swarmed The Charlottesville March — Then Twitter Cracked Down" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/russia-twitter-trolls-charlottesville
paldhous/2018-10-russian-troll-tweets
Data and R code underlying the original analysis reported in the Oct. 25, 2018 BuzzFeed News post "How Russia’s Online Trolls Engaged Unsuspecting American Voters — And Sometimes Duped The Media" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/russia-online-trolls-viral-strategy
paldhous/2019-04-climate-change
Data and R code underlying the maps and chart in the Apr. 22, 2019 BuzzFeed News post "Here And Now: These Maps Show How Climate Change Has Already Transformed The Earth" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/climate-change-maps-ice-sea-level-rise
paldhous/2019-06-democratic-candidates-twitter
Data and R code underlying the the Jun. 6, 2019 BuzzFeed News quiz "Can You Guess These Presidential Candidates Based On What They Tweet About?" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/2020-election-democratic-primary-tweets
paldhous/2019-10-social-sentinel
Data and R code underlying the the Oct. 31, 2019 BuzzFeed News article "Your Dumb Tweets Are Getting Flagged To People Trying To Stop School Shootings" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/lamvo/social-sentinel-school-officials-shootings-flag-social-media
paldhous/2020-09-patchwork-pandemic
paldhous/2020-11-covid-election
paldhous/2021-05-tx-winter-storm-deaths
Data and R code to reproduce the analysis underlying "The Graveyard Doesn't Lie," a May 26, 2021 BuzzFeed News article on the excess deaths caused by the February 2021 winter storm and power outages in Texas.
paldhous/2021-12-extreme-weather-deaths
paldhous/2022-09-ca-kern-oil-water
Analysis of water sources used for oil extraction in California, focusing on Kern County.
paldhous/2023-08-tx-ca-cattle-methane
Estimates of methane emissions from dairies and cattle feedlots in Texas and California.
paldhous/2023-10-tx-produced-water-spills
Analysis of spills of produced water by the oil and gas industry in Texas from 2013 to 2022.
paldhous/driving-directions-app
paldhous/earthquakes
paldhous/kasotochi-3d
paldhous/owid-covid
Our World in Data COVID data for use in teaching/training
paldhous/r-studio-cloud-test
paldhous/six-degrees
paldhous/us-land-cover
Interactive display of 2016 US National Land Cover database from https://www.mrlc.gov/