Work
Projects
Applied research and documented datasets, each built around a real measurement question; the exercises and planning tools live on the Teaching page.
The Work
The Hip-Hop Periodic Table
A fully documented dataset of 187 hip-hop acts (143 solo artists and 44 groups), each scored on five parts of lyricism, with confidence ratings for every act and a published data dictionary. Built to teach what goes into a score and what can quietly bend it, using a subject people genuinely argue about.
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Maturity Gap: A Line at 18
Federal arrest, prison, and recidivism numbers on young adults, then Pathways to Desistance, which followed 1,354 young people for seven years after a serious offense. The law draws a bright line at 18, but development does not, and each chart uses the form best suited to showing that.
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A Right That Exists on Paper: Compassionate Release
Nearly every state and the federal system has a compassionate or medical release law, and almost none of them see much use. This data story measures that gap from public records, reading federal sentencing data, fifty-state policy research, and one state's statutes as qualitative data that can be counted.
Read the data story →Work in progress is listed on the Writing page.
The Method
Applied Research Methods and Design
Randomized and quasi-experimental designs across law, psychology, and public policy, matched to the question and to real-world limits.
Tailored Program Evaluation and Recommendations
Process and outcome evaluations of courts, diversion, and pretrial programs, with recommendations they can act on.
Tests of Measurement Validity and Reliability
Screening tools and rating scales, tested for whether they measure what they claim to, consistently.
Practical Storytelling with Data
Teaching that turns careful analysis into work a judge, funder, or community will read and remember.