Kurt Selden / BI and data analyst
Data stories about American places.
I test hunches against public data and show every step: the sources, the joins, the checks and the code.
01 / Sources
Public data only
Census, BEA, IRS, CDC, the World Bank and other public publishers, each credited on every page.
02 / Checks
Every number checked
Against the publisher’s own table, before it goes up.
03 / Code
All code on GitHub
The SQL and Python behind every story, for anyone to rerun.
Data stories
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If U.S. states were countries
If each state were its own country, 29 of the 50 would rank among the world’s 50 largest economies, led by California at $4.30 trillion.
Essays / US Constitution v2.0
Every citizen is an equal co-owner.
What would we write if we drafted the country’s operating agreement today? Each idea as a clause, with a measure and its hard questions.
About me
I’m Kurt Selden, a BI and data analyst. I’ve built reporting and analysis for large companies, including AT&T and MetLife, and I designed the civic database behind the stories on this site. Along the way I helped ship two video games.