DataTrack is a data analysis tool created for Innovation in Journalism (Fall 2013) with Amon Jones and Tom Saxton.
Screenshot of the DataTrack website showing increasing ridership on CTA
The tool is meant to help journalists quickly identify trends in large datasets, such as those found on Chicago's Data Portal. With an automated tool, journalists could spend less time wrangling data and crunching numbers and more time investigating the reasons why something is happening.
Project Profile on the NU Knight Lab website