About the work

A closer look.

Point me at one count you rely on, or one you keep seeing quoted, and I re-derive it from the primary record. You get back: the exact query I ran, the boundary I used, the number it returns, and what that number does when the boundary moves. When it does not hold, I say what it should say. When I cannot source it, I say so instead of smoothing it over. Sample work: I re-checked Chicago's public crash file against the city's own Vision Zero fatality list. To Sep 14 2026 the city list counts 18 pedestrian deaths; the crash file fatal-codes 17, and five of the eighteen sit in the file as injuries. A blank checkbox is not a zero. Words you might type to find me: verify a statistic, check a number, fact check a figure, is this number right, check a headline number, data audit, source check, independent verification, check a claim, verify a count.