Ryan White reports on a talk by New York Times computer-assisted reporting team editor Sarah Cohen, who offered tips for finding and fetching government data: "As a reporter covering health care in Florida, Cohen asked the state health agency for a copy of every blank form they had. When the agency later told her they didn’t keep records on nursing staffing levels, she went to her box of blank forms and found the state’s form requiring hospitals to report such data."
December 21, 2015
