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A year of collecting data when the government failed: A convo with the COVID Tracking Project
Thursday, April 8, 2021
1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. PT
Online
The COVID Tracking Project built one of the most widely used coronavirus datasets of the pandemic at a time when it was nearly impossible to get consistent data on the spread of the coronavirus pandemic in the US. We'll chat with co-founders Erin Kissane, a writer and editor with a background in journalism and tech, and Alexis Madrigal, a staff writer at The Atlantic.