Data from the Government Accountability Office puts the tally of DOGE's federal job cuts at close to 400,000, and @amowreader.com's analysis for @nbcnews.com shows that it wasn’t just D.C. that was affected. [paywall] www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...
Joe Murphy
@joemurph.bsky.social
Data editor @ NBC News, @NBCguild.bsky.social strong, Oregonian born & raised, lives in NYC (Gowanus, Brooklyn). Formerly: NY Daily News, Denver Post, Medill. Into dataviz, data pipelines, accessibility, a good story. joemurph.76 @ signal joemurph.com
If you're interested in (free) SNL tickets for the upcoming season, the window for the lottery opened over the weekend and closes at the end of August. www.nbc.com/tickets/page...
Tickets and Studio Tour - NBC.com
Get tickets to the NBC Studio Tour New York and your favorite shows like The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Saturday Night Live and more on NBC.com.
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NBC News Data / Graphics’ @amowreader.com does a segment on the NBC News podcast about what it’s like for new college grads trying to find a job: Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1mGf... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
The Ukraine and Iran Wars Collide in the Caspian Sea; Plus, the Entry-Level Job Slog
Here's the Scoop · Episode
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The latest on where the Department of Justice's attempts to get state voter rolls stands: [no paywall] www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Tracking the DOJ's effort to get U.S. voter registration data
The Justice Department has asked state officials to provide voter names, dates of birth, residential addresses, driver’s licenses and Social Security data.
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Data from job boards and surveys show an unusually cool job market for new graduates, as well as a multiyear decline in entry-level job postings. Here's @amowreader.com for @nbcnews.com [paywall] www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...
NEW: NBC News is tracking what is known about the war in Iran [paywall] www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...
How much has the Iran war cost? Tracking the human and financial toll
Four months, thousands of lives, billions of dollars.
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NBC News is tracking measles case counts, which as of today's CDC release have hit a new, 35-year high. [no paywall] STORY: www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... TRACKER: www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...
U.S. measles cases reach 35-year high in 2026, surpassing last year’s total
The sharp rise in cases comes amid a decadeslong decline in childhood vaccination rates.
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We’ve been tracking the Messi vs. Mbappé career World Cup goals back-and-forth, and one of the little details we accounted for was whether Messi or Mbappé looked happy in their photos. Today, for the first time, we see a happy Mbappé. #dataViz #worldCup [no paywall] www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...
New from @nbcnews.com's Data / Graphics team: A visual #dataViz dive into the wildfire smoke smothering the Midwest and northern U.S., with two maps and two diagrams. Words by @amowreader.com and also, we're taking down the paywall on this one. www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...
The @nbcnews.com Data / Graphics team continues its run of #WorldCup coverage, today with a #dataViz [paywall] piece on the World Cup histories of the teams still left, where we are now on goals per game, and World Cup fatigue. Here's @amowreader.com with the story: www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...
I love this, @jasonkoebler.bsky.social. A story that goes "this thing is so dumb / easy, even I can do it" will get read so fast by yours truly. bsky.app/profile/404m...
404 Media@404media.co · 4w agoOver the last few years, 404 Media's @jasonkoebler.bsky.social has has become mildly obsessed with hustle bros and their online get rich quick scams. He goes LARPing to see how exactly they do this: Read the story here: www.404media.co/how-i-bought...
New from @nbcnews.com's Data / Graphics team: We analyzed federal Time Use Survey data and pulled out some interesting snippets comparing Gen Z to millennials and others. Lots of #dataViz and an interactive in this well-linked story. [paywall] www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...
Interactive: How does your average day compare with Gen Z’s?
New data shows, minute by minute, how Gen Z spends its time differently than previous generations.
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Just clicked through six consecutive of those click-the-squares-that-match captchas to get to my destination, what
Someone reverse-engineered the FIFA World Cup momentum charts ("most black-box metrics are simpler than they look," www.linkedin.com/pulse/revers... ), figured out a reasonable approximation, and published the code (in python) on github: github.com/JakeBonnici2...
GitHub - JakeBonnici22/match-momentum: Rebuilding FIFA's World Cup Match Momentum chart with an exponential-decay threat model in Python
Rebuilding FIFA's World Cup Match Momentum chart with an exponential-decay threat model in Python - JakeBonnici22/match-momentum
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Earlier this year, DHS told states that the EAC, tiny as it was, would handle CISA's old job of coordinating cyber threat information for the midterms. Now they're gone.
Trump ousts remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission ahead of midterms
The dismissals hamstring a key bipartisan agency just months before the midterms.
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The showers showed up in earnest right on time for the 5 p.m. commute... how thoughtful. #rainchat
New from @amowreader.com and Joelle Gross, for @nbcnews.com: New data from the job board Indeed finds the number of jobs that have listings with “AI” in the title has tripled from 2022 to 2026, touching 1 in 12 jobs on the site. [no paywall] www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...
The number of job titles that involve AI, even outside the tech world, is surging
Will your next job title include AI? The odds are rising.
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On career World Cup goals, Messi now leads Mbappé, 21 to 19. [no paywall] www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...
Gooooooooals: Mbappé battles Messi for all-time World Cup scoring record
NBC News is tracking the French star and the Argentine legend through their teams’ remaining matches.
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Neglected to share this last week, but lots of #dataViz in this article about the U.S. heat wave [paywall'ed] www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...
The Fourth of July U.S. heat wave, in seven diagrams, charts and maps
More than 160 million people — nearly half the U.S. population — are under heat alerts Thursday.
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A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.
Learned how much @amowreader.com knows about Taylor Swift (a LOT) this week, and here, that knowledge is shared with you, in #dataViz form. [no paywall] www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...
From heartbreak to happily ever after: The evolution of Taylor Swift’s music
Across 16 albums, the pop superstar’s lyrics have traced a journey from romance and heartbreak to marriage, lasting commitment and a new chapter with Travis Kelce.
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The cost of burgers is up. Fourth of July cookouts too. A quick [paywall'ed] piece on one slice of inflation pie, by @amowreader.com for @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...
Inflation is making an appearance at holiday cookouts this year, survey finds
The price of an average Fourth of July cookout increased 4.1% from 2025 to 2026.
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Here's @amowreader.com for @nbcnews.com: World Cup goals are way up. Is the ball to blame? [paywall] www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...
This special report on how Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ changed America ( by @spettypi.bsky.social and @mikehixenbaugh.com ) has a lot of #dataViz in it, is deeply reported and is *not* behind the NBC News paywall (though that will change soon). [no paywall for now] www.nbcnews.com/specials/tru...
How Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ changed America
President Donald Trump signed his “big, beautiful bill” a year ago. It unleashed the biggest ever rollback of federal programs serving the poor, while extending trillions of dollars in tax breaks disp...
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I deleted this post because, after a deeper look, I couldn't verify that theeditorial dot news was an actual publication or that any of its authors were indeed journalists. cc @dwillis.bsky.social @jamellebouie.net @ndiakopoulos.bsky.social @1gregtodd.bsky.social @damon.kiesow.net
Here’s a fun one: The @nbcnews.com Data / Graphics team is tracking Kylian Mbappé and Lionel Messi’s career World Cup goals (as of June 26 Messi holds the all-time record with 18). Will thread (intermittent) updates below. [no paywall] www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...
Today the Denver Post signs came down from 101 W. Colfax. It was 17 years ago the Rocky Mountain News signs were removed from the same building, it was a Saturday and I saw it happening, ran to the building, took an elevator up and landed this photo.
