Jovi Dai
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Jovi Dai
@jovidai.bsky.social
data reporter @ The Mercury News & East Bay Times • telling stories with data & visuals
NEW: The most recent available data shows that in 2022, Catholics occupied 19.7% of Africa’s population, 64.1% in the Americas, 3.3% in Asia, 39.5% in Europe and 26% in Oceania.

Where Roman Catholics live around the world and in the Bay Area.

www.mercurynews.com/2025/05/08/m...
Where Roman Catholics live around the world and in the Bay Area
Numbers of Catholics rose around the world, except in Europe.
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May 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
After the fall of Saigon to Communist forces on April 30, 1975, more than 2 million Vietnamese people fled the country by sea in search of safety and freedom.

Charts show Bay Area Vietnamese population, education level and income.

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Charts show Bay Area Vietnamese population, education level and income
Data shows the demographics of the Vietnamese population in the Bay Area.
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April 28, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Bay Area cuisine thrives on global flavors. Trump’s trade war puts that at risk.
Bay Area cuisine thrives on global flavors. Trump’s trade war puts that at risk.
Trump’s sweeping tariffs are creating uncertainty for restaurateurs who import their ingredients from abroad.
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April 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
NEW: April 15 is the Tax Day. New data reveals how tax refunds vary by state, county, and income level—and what this means for Bay Area residents. @mercurynews.com

www.mercurynews.com/2025/04/14/r...
Many Bay Area taxpayers might get a refund from Uncle Sam
Among California’s 58 counties, seven of the 10 with the highest average federal tax refunds are in the Bay Area, data shows.
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April 15, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Bay Area’s 40 deadliest local roads
Bay Area’s 40 deadliest local roads
The 40 deadliest Bay Area roads.
www.mercurynews.com
April 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Caltrain ridership gets big uptick since electric trains introduced. Read more information about the Caltrain annual ridership, and its percentage increase.

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Caltrain ridership gets big uptick since electric trains introduced
“Since the Caltrain is electrified, we’ve really reinvented our service,” said Caltrain spokesperson Dan Lieberman. “It’s faster than ever before, running more service…
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April 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
NEW: The Bay Area’s deadliest local roads - and what’s being done to make them safer. Check out the list of the Bay Area’s deadliest local roads.

www.mercurynews.com/2025/03/26/d...
The Bay Area’s deadliest local roads — and what’s being done to make them safer
Transportation officials have been working to improve safety on some large, busy thoroughfares that have a bloody history of deadly auto collisions.
www.mercurynews.com
March 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Reposted by Jovi Dai
California and Bay Area refugees urge Trump to reconsider resettlement limits
California and Bay Area refugees urge Trump to reconsider resettlement limits
About 12,000 refugees arrived in the nine-county Bay Area from 2002 to 2022 from dozens of countries, with the largest numbers from Iran, Iraq and Burma.
www.mercurynews.com
March 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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My first #NICAR2025 conf is right around the corner & there are 213+ sessions! 🤩📊

If you're like me & prefer a calendar view, I made a tool just for you! It's an #RShiny app that lets you search & select sessions to export as an .ics calendar file

GIve it a try! tiny.cc/nicar-2025 #RStats #RLadies
March 1, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Thank you @ire-nicar.bsky.social for hosting another amazing year of #NICAR25 to learn a lot of new skills and meet friends old and new! Can’t wait to apply new skills learned to my future stories.
March 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
#NICAR25 So great to see many people show up at my R session about learning visualization packages in Studio this morning.

Here’s a link to the files for you to review if you’d like to go through them after the conference. @ire-nicar.bsky.social

docs.google.com/presentation...
nicar25-r-packages
Learn visualization packages in RStudio to make a variety of charts Jovi Dai, San Jose Mercury News & East Bay Times Julie Christie, Independent journalist bit.ly/nicar25-r-packages-slides
docs.google.com
March 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Reposted by Jovi Dai
Loved being able to jump back into D3 for this #NICAR25 presentation. For those that missed it, here's the tip sheet for the session docs.google.com/document/d/1...
March 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I’m excited to have two hands-on sessions about HTML, CSS and JavaScript for #NICAR25 with @matt-kiefer.bsky.social, @yolimartinez.bsky.social and Rosmery Izaguirre.

If you’re interested in learning them, please join us this morning! @ire-nicar.bsky.social

schedules.ire.org/nicar-2025/i...
NICAR 2025 schedule | March 6-9, 2025 | Minneapolis
Welcome to the #NICAR25 conference schedule!
schedules.ire.org
March 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM