Chris Essig

The Texas Tribune’s data visuals team helped contextualize many of the state’s major stories this year. Here’s a look at some of our most memorable work.

The Tribune is an authoritative source for providing user-friendly databases of public information. Our reporters and software engineers collaborate to present a full picture for readers, giving them the tools to be more thoughtful, productive and engaged citizens. We also use data to help tell other compelling stories about politics and policy in Texas.

After nearly two and a half years, we’re no longer tracking daily coronavirus cases, hospitalizations, deaths and vaccinations in Texas.

Fabiana Chaparro will join the multimedia team, and Caroline Covington will join the data visuals team.

In 2021, the Tribune’s data visuals team helped tell the biggest stories affecting Texans. Here’s a roundup of our most impactful work.

State lawmakers are trying to reform a complicated taxing system where everything from suburban growth to gentrification and a homeowner’s age influence how much Texans pay their local governments.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz won re-election in 2018 against Democrat Beto O’Rourke by about 2.6 percentage points. Here’s a look at the margins of victory for every U.S. Senate election in Texas since 1961.

The latest 85th Legislative Session news from The Texas Tribune.

House Bill 3287, which Gov. Greg Abbott didn’t veto, will force larger breweries to pay a distributor to deliver their beer — even if they’re delivering it to on-site taprooms just yards away from where it’s produced.

A Texas Tribune analysis of how much Texas candidates spent per vote ahead of the November elections reveals campaigns that won or lost on the cheap, as well as those that paid heavily for their outcome.