Kate Cronquist
@kcronquist.bsky.social
Data science + public policy. 📍DC. Big fan of public transit, Latin America travel, and cats.
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Republican governors have sent National Guard troops to Democratic-led Washington, D.C., even though cities in their states all have higher rates of violent crime than the nation’s capital. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
September 1, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Republican governors have sent National Guard troops to Democratic-led Washington, D.C., even though cities in their states all have higher rates of violent crime than the nation’s capital. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
RIP to the NYT mini crossword, and with it, my will to face the day.
August 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM
RIP to the NYT mini crossword, and with it, my will to face the day.
Metro I love you but Gallery Place-Chinatown needs some air 🥵
July 14, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Metro I love you but Gallery Place-Chinatown needs some air 🥵
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It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins
June 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins
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There has been a lot of focus on the District’s budget due to an effort in Congress to force the District of Columbia to cut 1 billion dollars in spending 6 months into the fiscal year. Budgets can be complicated, so to combat confusion I’d like to introduce “The District Budget, 101 pt 1”. 1/4
March 13, 2025 at 12:04 AM
There has been a lot of focus on the District’s budget due to an effort in Congress to force the District of Columbia to cut 1 billion dollars in spending 6 months into the fiscal year. Budgets can be complicated, so to combat confusion I’d like to introduce “The District Budget, 101 pt 1”. 1/4
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In largely progressive DC, many civil servants fear for their professional livelihoods as the new Trump administration takes aim at the federal bureaucracy.
“You work on anything related to policy or regulation and you're now an at-will employee and we could be fired tomorrow.”
@51st.news
“You work on anything related to policy or regulation and you're now an at-will employee and we could be fired tomorrow.”
@51st.news
Local federal workers react to Trump's new work policies: 'People were sobbing in the halls’
Many of D.C.'s civil servants panic as they face job losses, hiring freezes, and return to office mandates.
51st.news
January 24, 2025 at 2:48 AM
In largely progressive DC, many civil servants fear for their professional livelihoods as the new Trump administration takes aim at the federal bureaucracy.
“You work on anything related to policy or regulation and you're now an at-will employee and we could be fired tomorrow.”
@51st.news
“You work on anything related to policy or regulation and you're now an at-will employee and we could be fired tomorrow.”
@51st.news
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a bunch of posts about abortion pills vanished from Instagram. Meta put them back after we asked what was happening: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/t...
Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers’ Posts
Some posts related to obtaining abortion pills were recently hidden on Instagram and Facebook and some accounts were suspended, before being later restored.
www.nytimes.com
January 24, 2025 at 2:41 AM
a bunch of posts about abortion pills vanished from Instagram. Meta put them back after we asked what was happening: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/t...
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In Washington, D.C., a tax on residents earning more than $250,000 a year is boosting the wages of child care workers. Two years in, it's proving to be a great investment.
How D.C. tackled a child care crunch through a tax hike on the rich
In Washington, D.C., a tax on residents earning more than $250,000 a year is boosting the wages of child care workers. Two years in, it's proving to be a great investment.
www.npr.org
December 13, 2024 at 8:16 PM
In Washington, D.C., a tax on residents earning more than $250,000 a year is boosting the wages of child care workers. Two years in, it's proving to be a great investment.
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rspatialdata: a collection of data sources and tutorials on downloading and visualizing spatial data with #rstats 💻🗺️📊
👉 rspatialdata.github.io
👉 rspatialdata.github.io
December 8, 2024 at 6:08 PM
rspatialdata: a collection of data sources and tutorials on downloading and visualizing spatial data with #rstats 💻🗺️📊
👉 rspatialdata.github.io
👉 rspatialdata.github.io
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The D.C. area will see home prices rise more than anywhere else in the mid-Atlantic in 2025, with the median sale increasing to $638,000, as return to office leads more people to relocate closer to urban centers, BrightMLS forecasts.
December 4, 2024 at 3:10 PM
The D.C. area will see home prices rise more than anywhere else in the mid-Atlantic in 2025, with the median sale increasing to $638,000, as return to office leads more people to relocate closer to urban centers, BrightMLS forecasts.
Just fixed my running toilet all on my own so basically I'm a plumber now. Is there a fed agency for which I should put my name forward?
November 26, 2024 at 1:57 AM
Just fixed my running toilet all on my own so basically I'm a plumber now. Is there a fed agency for which I should put my name forward?
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Our World in Data now provides APIs to access their datasets programmatically. Here's a quick example that shows how to use them:
www.allendowney.com/blog/2024/11...
Thanks, @ourworldindata.org
www.allendowney.com/blog/2024/11...
Thanks, @ourworldindata.org
Download the World in Data
Our World in Data recently announced that they are providing APIs to access their data. Coincidentally, I am using one of their datasets in my workshop on time series analysis at PyData Global 2024…
www.allendowney.com
November 24, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Our World in Data now provides APIs to access their datasets programmatically. Here's a quick example that shows how to use them:
www.allendowney.com/blog/2024/11...
Thanks, @ourworldindata.org
www.allendowney.com/blog/2024/11...
Thanks, @ourworldindata.org
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Who Are These Federal Workers Trump Wants to Fire? www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
November 23, 2024 at 9:19 PM
Who Are These Federal Workers Trump Wants to Fire? www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Happy to be here ☺️ looking for all things data science, public policy, transit, mapping, equity, and progressive data-supported ideas.
November 23, 2024 at 9:48 PM
Happy to be here ☺️ looking for all things data science, public policy, transit, mapping, equity, and progressive data-supported ideas.