
Data Journalism How They Did It
Using WhatsApp to Crowdsource Data on Ride Hailing Companies’ Labor Lockouts
We used WhatsApp to crowdsource information from Uber and Lyft drivers in NYC about company lockouts during a local, minimum wage dispute.
We used WhatsApp to crowdsource information from Uber and Lyft drivers in NYC about company lockouts during a local, minimum wage dispute.
This week, our DDJ Top 10 looks at The Marshall Project’s analysis of child detention at the US border, the Baltimore Banner’s in-depth story on the city’s vacant housing crisis. Plus, we dive into stories using historical data to investigate how slavery broke apart families, a flight analysis on the new destinations of the Russian elite, and a look at Facebook’s “broken promises.”