Data Projects | Tanner Gildea

Data Projects

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Some data analysis - politically relevant and irrelevant.

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U.S. Covid-19 vaccination live tracker

Jan 28, 2021

FINAL UPDATE: March 09, 2021 Best viewed on desktop. When I launched this project late December 2020, major outlets were not tracking daily vaccination progress nor the path to herd immunity.......

The legislative network of the 116th Congress (2019-2020)

Jan 19, 2021

The 116th Congress of the United States convened on January 3rd, 2019 and ended on January 3rd, 2021, giving way to the 117th Congress.......

Do your senators represent your state's level of support for Trump's agenda?

Apr 20, 2020

How often do your senators vote for Trump’s legislative agenda in the upper chamber? And how closely do they mirror your state’s popular support for Trump in the 2016 presidential election?......

Which Democratic candidates are getting mentioned the most on cable and online news?

Jul 18, 2019

FiveThirtyEight is currently running an interesting series analyzing how cable news and online media sources are covering the Democratic presidential candidates. Dhrumil Mehta, one of FiveThirtyEight’s data journalists, has diligently kept track of how coverage of individual candidates has risen and fallen week to week.......

Top ten causes of death in the U.S. (1999-2016)

Jul 17, 2019

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention maintains a dataset of the causes of death in the United States. Using this data, I present trends in the leading causes of death in the U.......