Past Contributions

• Updated: 10 Most-Read Stories of 2011: Perry, UT and TSA Groping

  By Brandi Grissom and Niran Babalola Dec. 27, 2011

  With 2011 winding down, we take a look back at the stories our readers liked best, judging by the number of pageviews they received. Full Story 

• Interactive: How Would You Close the State's Budget Gap?

  By Ross Ramsey, Matt Stiles, Niran Babalola, Christopher Chang and Noah Seger April 19, 2011

  Solving the state's 2012-13 budget woes is a hard job and perhaps the best way to show that is to let you decide for yourself how the $27 billion shortfall should be closed. Use our interactive budget shortfall app to see what you're willing to give up to close the gap. Full Story 

• Texas Red-Light Cameras

  By Matt Stiles and Niran Babalola June 15, 2010

  Explore Texas red-light camera intersections statewide or drill down to individual intersections to see images, crash figures and citation totals. Full Story 

• Memorial Data

  By Matt Stiles and Niran Babalola May 31, 2010

  Since our November launch, we've published more than 30 web applications made from government records, including the most comprehensive public payroll database in the state, an interactive database with all 160,000 inmates serving time in the 100-plus state prison units, rankings of more than 5,800 public schools, a comprehensive list of every red-light enforcement camera in Texas, and databases with state-level fundraising and spending for members of the Legislature and statewide elected officials. Readers have viewed these pages more than 2.3 million times — more than a third of the site's overall traffic. Full Story 

• On the Records: Come and Take Our Data

  By Matt Stiles and Niran Babalola May 11, 2010

  Records in the Texas Tribune's data library are licensed under Creative Commons, which means you're free to download them, remix them and republish them — so long as you comply with our simple terms. Full Story 

• Data App: Let's Go to Prison

  By Matt Stiles and Niran Babalola April 29, 2010

  Our latest interactive database has records on each of the more than 160,000 inmates in Texas prisons, including their names, crimes, hometowns, height, weight and gender, the counties in which they were convicted and their sentencing dates. Explore them all. Full Story 

• The Revision Thing

  By Brian Thevenot and Niran Babalola March 10, 2010

  Two months after their controversial meetings about proposed changes to the social studies curriculum, State Board of Education members meet today to resume their deliberations. To help you follow along as the SBOE's ideological blocs scrap over a flood of amendments, we've produced this annotated version of the high school history standards. Full Story 

• A Better App: Public Employee Pay

  By Matt Stiles and Niran Babalola Feb. 15, 2010

  Find the salaries of more than 340,000 public employees with our enhanced data application, including those working at the largest state agencies as well as individual public schools, cities and mass-transit operators. And universities: Did you know, for instance, that of the 10 highest-paid professors at the state's two largest universities, nine are Aggies? Full Story 

• Election 2010

  By Matt Stiles, Niran Babalola and Dan Leyendecker Jan. 15, 2010

  The most up-to-date information about the candidates running for various offices. Full Story 

• Data App: Frequent Flyers

  By Matt Stiles and Niran Babalola Dec. 21, 2009

  Search the privately funded trips taken by Texas congressmen and their staffs during the last two years. Full Story