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Ryan Murphy
Ryan Murphy worked at the Tribune from 2010 to 2019. As deputy data visuals editor, he created graphics, interactive stories and data-driven features, wrangled difficult datasets and worked on tools to make development for the team more efficient. He also oversaw the design and maintenance of our large-scale explorers.
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Demographics
Despite high expectations for 2016, no surge in Texas Hispanic voter turnout
Turnout among Texas Hispanics eligible to vote rose slightly in the 2016 presidential elections compared to four years earlier, according to newly released U.S. Census data.
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Data for 150,000 Texas state employees updated in Salaries Explorer
We’ve updated compensation data for more than 150,000 state employees in our Government Salaries Explorer. This update reflects the latest state agency payrolls of 2017.
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For transgender Texans, navigating public restrooms is already complicated
Five transgender Texans explained to The Texas Tribune what goes into making decisions about using public restrooms, including considerations for the comfort of others and reflections on how strangers perceive their gender.
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Here’s what the Texas school choice bill means in plain English
Despite lobbying from Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, the leading private school choice bill of the session is facing strong resistance in the Texas House. We’ve updated our annotation of Senate Bill 3 to reflect the version that passed out of the Senate.
Posted inCourts, Criminal Justice, Politics, State Government
Here’s what the revised Texas bathroom bill means in plain English
State Sen. Lois Kolkhorst, the author of the so-called “bathroom bill,” last week unveiled a revised version of Senate Bill 6. We’ve updated our plain English annotation of the bill to explain how it would impact communities across Texas.
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We’ve updated our Texas Public Schools Explorer
We’re pushing out our updated Texas Public Schools Explorer, which lets you easily find graduation rates, test scores and more for all of the 1,207 school districts and 8,673 public school campuses in Texas for the 2015-16 school year.
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Sold Out
How underage girls are sold for sex online
You don’t have to dredge the backwaters of the Internet to find underage girls sold for sex online. Take a tour of the commercial sex trade’s most recent marketplace, hidden in plain view.
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Here’s what the Texas school choice bill means in plain English
Last week, state Sen. Larry Taylor filed the leading school choice bill of the legislative session. But what would Senate Bill 3 actually do? We’ve annotated the text to explain in plain English how the bill would impact Texas families.
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See which Texas eighth-graders go on to earn college degrees
We’ve updated our Higher Education Outcomes app with a new year of data, showing the percentage of Texas eighth-graders — by county, ethnicity and other factors — who earned degrees or certificates within six years of graduating from high school.