Jovi Dai

Where Roman Catholics live around the world and in the Bay Area Numbers of Catholics rose around the world, except in Europe.

NEW: The most recent available data shows that in 2022, Catholics occupied 19.7% of Africa’s population, 64.1% in the Americas, 3.3% in Asia, 39.5% in Europe and 26% in Oceania.

Where Roman Catholics live around the world and in the Bay Area.

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Charts show Bay Area Vietnamese population, education level and income Data shows the demographics of the Vietnamese population in the Bay Area.

After the fall of Saigon to Communist forces on April 30, 1975, more than 2 million Vietnamese people fled the country by sea in search of safety and freedom.

Charts show Bay Area Vietnamese population, education level and income.

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Bay Area cuisine thrives on global flavors. Trump’s trade war puts that at risk. Trump’s sweeping tariffs are creating uncertainty for restaurateurs who import their ingredients from abroad.

Bay Area cuisine thrives on global flavors. Trump’s trade war puts that at risk.

Many Bay Area taxpayers might get a refund from Uncle Sam Among California’s 58 counties, seven of the 10 with the highest average federal tax refunds are in the Bay Area, data shows.

NEW: April 15 is the Tax Day. New data reveals how tax refunds vary by state, county, and income level—and what this means for Bay Area residents. @mercurynews.com

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Bay Area Gen-Z entrepreneur uses AI to help job seekers “AI has made it easier than ever to apply for jobs, generate resumes, and write cover letters. But now, companies are also using AI to filter applicants — so in many cases, AI is essent…

Bay Area Gen-Z entrepreneur uses AI to help job seekers.

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Bay Area’s 40 deadliest local roads The 40 deadliest Bay Area roads.

Bay Area’s 40 deadliest local roads

Caltrain ridership gets big uptick since electric trains introduced “Since the Caltrain is electrified, we’ve really reinvented our service,” said Caltrain spokesperson Dan Lieberman. “It’s faster than ever before, running more service…

Caltrain ridership gets big uptick since electric trains introduced. Read more information about the Caltrain annual ridership, and its percentage increase.

www.mercurynews.com/2025/04/07/c...

The Bay Area’s deadliest local roads — and what’s being done to make them safer Transportation officials have been working to improve safety on some large, busy thoroughfares that have a bloody history of deadly auto collisions.

NEW: The Bay Area’s deadliest local roads - and what’s being done to make them safer. Check out the list of the Bay Area’s deadliest local roads.

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California and Bay Area refugees urge Trump to reconsider resettlement limits About 12,000 refugees arrived in the nine-county Bay Area from 2002 to 2022 from dozens of countries, with the largest numbers from Iran, Iraq and Burma.

California and Bay Area refugees urge Trump to reconsider resettlement limits

My first #NICAR2025 conf is right around the corner & there are 213+ sessions! 🤩📊

If you're like me & prefer a calendar view, I made a tool just for you! It's an #RShiny app that lets you search & select sessions to export as an .ics calendar file

GIve it a try! tiny.cc/nicar-2025 #RStats #RLadies

Thank you @ire-nicar.bsky.social for hosting another amazing year of #NICAR25 to learn a lot of new skills and meet friends old and new! Can’t wait to apply new skills learned to my future stories.

nicar25-r-packages Learn visualization packages in RStudio to make a variety of charts Jovi Dai, San Jose Mercury News & East Bay Times Julie Christie, Independent journalist bit.ly/nicar25-r-packages-slides

#NICAR25 So great to see many people show up at my R session about learning visualization packages in Studio this morning.

Here’s a link to the files for you to review if you’d like to go through them after the conference. @ire-nicar.bsky.social

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The Great Data Hunt Grab your friends, colleagues or anyone you see standing around (No Nerds Left Behind!) and sign up for the Great Data Hunt. You’ll solve festive data-related puzzles to find clues that will lead you ...

Happy #nicar25! Join us Sat evening for fabulous prizes bit.ly/NICARDATAHUN...

Loved being able to jump back into D3 for this #NICAR25 presentation. For those that missed it, here's the tip sheet for the session docs.google.com/document/d/1...

NICAR 2025 schedule | March 6-9, 2025 | Minneapolis Welcome to the #NICAR25 conference schedule!

Here’s the link to the 102 session #NICAR25: schedules.ire.org/nicar-2025/i....

NICAR 2025 schedule | March 6-9, 2025 | Minneapolis Welcome to the #NICAR25 conference schedule!

I’m excited to have two hands-on sessions about HTML, CSS and JavaScript for #NICAR25 with @matt-kiefer.bsky.social, @yolimartinez.bsky.social and Rosmery Izaguirre.

If you’re interested in learning them, please join us this morning! @ire-nicar.bsky.social

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