You have one day left before Saturday's storm washes out 🌸peak bloom🌸. Here's where to take the Metro for maximum cherry blossoms - catch the themed train if you're lucky.
(Suggestion: skip the Mall. Enjoy a quieter view.) hrecht.com/cherry-blossom…

Here's the analysis and basemap tile generation code behind my 🌸cherry blossoms🌸 project. Data munging, analysis, and static mapping with R. Tiles built with planetiler + Protomaps + tippecanoe.
(Blame early peak bloom for the github delay!) github.com/hrecht/cherry-…

Hey, D.C., love cherry blossoms but hate the tidal basin crowds? Hannah Recht created this brilliant dataviz tool for blossom peepers to find the pink: hrecht.com/cherry-blossom…

While the cherry blossoms at the tidal basin are lovely, the crowds are not. Check out this interactive map from the amazing Hannah Recht to locate trees in your neighborhood.

🌸A new little project: Maps, math, and musings on cherry blossom peak bloom and finding joy in the flowers close to home, without the crowds.
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Working on some graphics that are cute and fun and have nothing to do with injustice or greed or suffering for the first time in years, kinda nice

absolutely losing it over this salary transparency malicious compliance

What would happen if a religion with very specific and unwavering views on good and evil controlled a large share of the U.S. health care system? You don't have to wonder. We are living it. (By Rachana D. Pradhan and Hannah Recht for KFF Health News.) kffhealthnews.org/news/article/c…

DCist is some of the best local reporting we had. They didn’t cover Washington; they covered the District.

WAMU/DCist is essential daily reading/listening for anybody who cares about DC. Nobody else does what they do

I've been adding documentation for new Census datasets on the #rstats censusapi website. Here's an example for state-by-state data from the Household Pulse Survey. You can also get it over time!
The latest HPS results are set to be released this Thursday. hrecht.com/censusapi/arti…

16% of babies are delivered in Catholic hospitals, which restrict reproductive health services according to church teaching. Great graphic and data from Hannah Recht

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When we started this investigation in 2021, Roe v. Wade was still law. Now: 'Ironically, some states where Catholic hospitals dominate — such as WA, OR, and CO — are now considered medical havens for women in nearby states that have banned abortion.' kffhealthnews.org/news/article/c…

“More and more women are running into barriers to obtaining care as Catholic health systems have aggressively acquired secular hospitals.”

Eye-opening Rachana D. Pradhan Hannah Recht piece on growing collisions over reproductive health.

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From the great Hannah Recht and Rachana D. Pradhan:
'We can’t do anything': How Catholic hospitals constrain medical care in America. usatoday.com/story/news/nat… via @usatoday

SCOOP: the FBI and other agencies are investigating a massive alleged $2 billion Medicare fraud involving catheters, Dan Diamond myself and D Keating found, that could rival some of the largest health-care fraud cases ever

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