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Al Shaw News Applications Developer at ProPublica.

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Federal vendor with $50M in contracts leaves portal broken for a month propublica.org

101 ams1 2 months ago 20 comments

Explore Financial Disclosures from President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees projects.propublica.org

10 ams1 8 months ago 1 comments

Why Houston's ‘Once-In-A-Lifetime' Floods Keep Happening projects.propublica.org

2 ams1 10 years ago 0 comments

Comment · 10 years ago

Want to see if you doctor has been taking money from pharma for meals/consulting/speaking/etc? Look them up in ProPublica's Dollars for Docs: https://projects.propublica.org/docdollars/

Telecoms Delaying Critical Patches for Classified Military Smartphones propublica.org

11 ams1 11 years ago 0 comments

New data on payments from drug and device companies to doctors propublica.org

6 ams1 11 years ago 0 comments

40 Years of Growth in Las Vegas, via Landsat and WebGL projects.propublica.org

2 ams1 11 years ago 0 comments

How we turned the Colorado River into a plumbing system for 7 states projects.propublica.org

2 ams1 11 years ago 0 comments

How U.S. Commanders Spent $2B of Petty Cash in Afghanistan projects.propublica.org

6 ams1 11 years ago 0 comments

Antebellum Data Journalism: How Big Data Busted Abe Lincoln propublica.org

9 ams1 11 years ago 0 comments

Louisiana’s Moon Shot – Plan to save its coastline projects.propublica.org

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Comment · 12 years ago

ProPublica reporter/developer here.. There's a tool embedded in the article to see if your carrier is setting a tracking header.

We also published a follow-up about how AT&T has said they will stop using the header: http://www.propublica.org/article/att-stops-using-undeletabl...