2011 Top Data Apps: Salaries, Prisons, Public Schools
It was a big year for Trib data apps. As 2011 comes to a close, we have compiled a list of the 10 most-visited data apps on the Tribune site since Jan. 1.
We evaluated data apps a little differently than stories. The popularity is based not just on relevancy, but on longevity, and the list below is made up of many apps that consistently find their way back into the minds (and tweets, and Facebook shares) of our readers.
Two of 2010's massive data apps come in first and second: the Public Employee Salary Database and the Texas ...
Comments (3)
Julie Guercia Kirchem via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Now if you could create an app that has the salaries of CEOs in Texas but that information would be private. I think it's rather unfair that public employees who are historically underpaid in Texas have to endure public scrutiny while those who make the real money are allowed privacy.
CeeCee Pond via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Why is Angelo State University not listed as one of the agencies?
richard kidwell
Keep up the good work on providing databases. So often we here politicians and pundits spouting figures that are hard to verify because they don't reference a source. Having an independent organization such as yours providing databases is a help. Thanks