June 2024
Beginner to intermediate
256 pages
5h 50m
English
During the summer of 2020, Matt Herman’s family moved from Brooklyn to Westchester County, New York. It was still early in the COVID-19 pandemic, and Herman was shocked that the county published little data about infection rates. Vaccines weren’t yet available, and daily choices like whether to go to the park depended on access to good data.
At the time, Herman was deputy director of the ChildStat Data Unit in the Office of Research and Analytics at the New York City Administration for Children’s Services. This mouthful of a title meant he was skilled at working with data, enabling him to create the COVID resource he needed: the ...
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