11 Data Points and Discoveries That Surprised Us in 2024One of our most important jobs at The Upshot is to give readers a kind of journalism that wouldn’t otherwise exist at The New York Times — in conception, execution or both.
Early this year, researchers shared with us the first school-district-level data comparing students’ test scores before and after pandemic school closures.
We expected that students in poor districts would remain further behind students in rich districts, and that was generally true.
Some of our research confirmed patterns that have been observed before: On average, voters appeared to select new neighborhoods based, at least indirectly, on those neighborhoods’ partisanship.
But our extraordinarily detailed data also let us dig into the dynamics of the years between the 2020 and 2024 elections.
Persons:
— Kevin Quealy, A.I, — Aatish Bhatia, they’re, — Ben Blatt, foremen, Emily Badger, Robert Gebeloff, Aatish Bhatia, Dobbs, Roe, Wade, Donald J, — Margot Sanger, Katz, Claire Cain Miller, Josh Katz, Wyna Liu, — Eve Washington, Asmaa, Eden, Joe Biden, Biden, wasn’t, Trump, Biden’s, Kamala Harris’s, — Nate Cohn, Gerard Koeppel, Larry Buchanan, Emily, —, — Claire Cain Miller, Sarah Mervosh, Francesca Paris Arizona, — Ethan Singer, Ronda, — Francesca Paris, Alicia Parlapiano
Organizations:
New York Times, aha, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, LAX, America Factory, New York Times Games, New York Public Library, Emily Badger, Trump, Democratic
Locations:
J.F.K, America, Eden Weingart, Manhattan, York, Erie, New York, California, Arizona