The Texas Tribune's development and data teams took on projects ranging from higher education to public education, campaign finance, transportation and women's health. We take a look back at the best of what we built in 2012.

At the top of this list are our two newest additions to our stable of news apps, the Public Schools Explorer and the Higher Education Explorer. These applications are built on top of readily available, but not easily consumable, data sources from the state.

One of our most successful visualizations was the award-winning Rise and Fall of Rick Perry's Presidential ...

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