Work
Projects
Applied research and documented datasets, each built around a real measurement question. The interactive tools and exercises live on the teaching 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.
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 measurement validity, sampling bias, composite scoring, and uncertainty communication, using a subject people genuinely argue about.
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Maturity Gap: A Line at 18
A data story told chart by chart: federal arrest, prison, and recidivism numbers on young adults, then Pathways to Desistance, a study that followed 1,354 young people for seven years after a serious offense. The legal system draws a bright line at age 18, but human development does not, and every chart picks the form built to show it.
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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 on the books, and almost none of them see much use. A data story that measures the gap from public records: federal sentencing data, published fifty-state policy research, and one state's statutes read closely, treating legal text as what it is, qualitative data that can be counted.
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More projects in progress.