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Niran Babalola

Niran Babalola was a software engineer and technology director at The Texas Tribune, where he worked from 2009 to 2012. Previously he wrote web applications for the Austin American-Statesman. He has also written software at Yahoo and Apple. A native of Sugar Land, he studied computer science at Stanford University.

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Posted in Criminal Justice

Memorial Data

Avatar photoAvatar photoBy Matt Stiles and Niran Babalola

Since our November launch, we’ve published more than 30 web applications made from government records, including the most comprehensive public payroll database in the state, an interactive database with all 160,000 inmates serving time in the 100-plus state prison units, rankings of more than 5,800 public schools, a comprehensive list of every red-light enforcement camera in Texas, and databases with state-level fundraising and spending for members of the Legislature and statewide elected officials. Readers have viewed these pages more than 2.3 million times — more than a third of the site’s overall traffic.

Posted in Public Education

The Revision Thing

Avatar photoAvatar photoBy Brian Thevenot and Niran Babalola

Two months after their controversial meetings about proposed changes to the social studies curriculum, State Board of Education members meet today to resume their deliberations. To help you follow along as the SBOE’s ideological blocs scrap over a flood of amendments, we’ve produced this annotated version of the high school history standards.

Posted in Criminal Justice

A Better App: Public Employee Pay

Avatar photoAvatar photoBy Matt Stiles and Niran Babalola

Find the salaries of more than 340,000 public employees with our enhanced data application, including those working at the largest state agencies as well as individual public schools, cities and mass-transit operators. And universities: Did you know, for instance, that of the 10 highest-paid professors at the state’s two largest universities, nine are Aggies?

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