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John Hancock
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Tech Lead, Newsroom Development Team, The Boston Globe. Building storytelling experiences through interactive design and data.
Boston police officers chased a care after being told to stop. Minutes later, three teens died in a crash. Read the
John R. Ellement and Sean Cotter report on a tragedy that could have been avoided. Video by Randy Vazquez. Map by me. @bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/08/m...
April 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Is a college degree really worth it? Inside the heated debate about the value of higher education. Check out Hilary Burns' story and use our database to explore/compare the ROI of different degrees from New England universities. @bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/12/m...
February 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Year 2 of tracking 311 pothole reports in Boston for @bostonglobe.com. Thirty-three days into 2025, and the city's 311 system has already received almost 1200 requests for pothole repairs (36 a day). apps.bostonglobe.com/metro/2024/0...
February 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
4/ In addition, we've added a list of the locations across New England with the most snowfall over the last 48 hours. Attached is a before/after view of our map with the updates. apps.bostonglobe.com/metro/weathe...
January 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Speaking of weather, New England did get snow this weekend. The NWS has over 800 locations reporting snow accumulation over the last 48 hours. Keep up with snow totals across the region with @bostonglobe.com's snow tracker: apps.bostonglobe.com/metro/weathe...
January 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Some unprecedented weather along the Gulf Coast. Use the @bostonglobe.com severe weather tracker to keep up with weather alerts in New England and across the US. apps.bostonglobe.com/metro/weathe...
January 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Watched Alien: Romulus on the flight home from visiting family. While it's not the strongest entry in the franchise, I loved the return to the retro-style icons and computer screen interfaces, especially the simplistic stick-figure indicators for when gravity was on/off.
January 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
There is a huge contextual purpose in making the bars accurate representation of their true value: gprivate.com/6e9gn

And using your graph to paint a picture using old numbers paints a misleading picture. 80+ million votes was an anomaly. So was holding an election in the middle of a pandemic.
November 15, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Voter turnout: Did Democrats stay home in 2024? In counties across the US where Donald Trump earned marginally more or fewer votes than he did in 2020, it can't help but feel like Kamala Harris missed an opportunity. t.co/3MmlmxJj1S
November 15, 2024 at 4:45 PM