DATA
Find out how much the City of Pittsburgh paid its staff in 2017. Take our quiz.
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This year, we’re breaking down the data with a twist: This quiz is a fun way to learn how your tax dollars are spent.
PublicSource Investigation
How the Pittsburgh police bureau’s work with an IT company escaped city oversight for more than a decade
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Some members of city council struggle to recall B-Three Solutions or what the company has done for the city. B-Three has been commissioned to build the police bureau’s flagship data system and several related projects along with programs for the Department of Finance and the Department of Permits, Licenses and Inspections. The city has paid B-Three about $4.3 million since late 2009.
PublicSource Investigation
Pittsburgh police bureau’s work with a technology company sparked FBI, city investigations and a whistleblower lawsuit
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Two city agencies are investigating allegations of wrongdoing between Pittsburgh police and city employees with a software vendor the city has paid at least $4.3 million.
Let's talk about RACE
Data on RACE: Stats every Pittsburgher should know
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Your race is part of your identity and will more often than not shape how you experience life in America, in Pittsburgh, in your neighborhood, your workplace and beyond.
PUBLIC SAFETY
Getting an illegal gun in Pittsburgh is easy. Why hundreds of seizures aren’t stopping the problem.
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Since 2012, the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police recovered more than 3,600 guns from suspects, and roughly 2,600 of those firearms are believed to have been carried illegally, according to a PublicSource analysis of police data. That’s the most detailed account to date on the scope of Pittsburgh’s illegal gun market. But it’s incomplete.
PUBLICSOURCE EVENT
Mathematician Cathy O’Neil talks big data, ethics and how algorithms can perpetuate inequity and what we can do about it
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O’Neil told about 300 people at the Carnegie Library Lecture Hall on Monday evening how she’s witnessed algorithms causing harm: She worked as an analyst on Wall Street during the financial crisis of 2008 and saw first hand how corruption and greed masked their true intent behind ‘math.’
DATA
Small Town, Pennsylvania: The workforce of small-town Southwestern Pennsylvania
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Facts about the jobs and industries fueling rural counties and their residents
EDUCATION
From school to jail: How hundreds of kids get arrested in Pittsburgh schools every year
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School administrators can, and do, call the school police on students even in elementary school. And the racial disparity in which students age 10 and older face arrests and citations at school is staggering.
The Charter Effect
How the money flow between public districts and charter schools in Allegheny County fueled animosity
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This series will expose and explain the data and records behind the charter schools operating in Allegheny County.
SPECIAL PROJECT
Small Town, Pennsylvania: Facts you should know about the small towns of Southwestern Pennsylvania
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Quick takes on population, jobs, drilling and the opioid epidemic.