Christine Zhang
Christine Zhang is a data journalist at The Baltimore Sun, where she reports news stories using data analysis and statistics. Before joining The Sun in 2018, she worked as a data scientist at Two Sigma and was previously an OpenNews fellow at the Los Angeles Times and a research analyst at the Brookings Institution. She has a B.A. from Smith College and an M.A. from Columbia University.
Recent Articles
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After years of failing to get Baltimore's vacants below 17,000, city launches a new push to reverse the trend
The number of vacant houses in Baltimore has remained stubbornly flat for a decade — almost 17,000 abandoned buildings blighting the city’s streets. And for every one knocked down or fixed up, a new one appears somewhere else. But city Housing Commissioner Michael Braverman says his team is finally...
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Thursday's violence in Baltimore was extreme — but the number of shootings isn't unprecedented
Thursday was a particularly violent day in Baltimore, with 12 people shot, four fatally, in a series of seven incidents. But the numbers are not unprecedented. When it comes to tracking record-setting crime incidents, Baltimore police’s public data is recorded in such a way that makes it difficult...
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It looks like a video game, but it's not. It's a 3D map of the buildings, roads and land in 1815 Baltimore, created by UMBC
In the early 1800s, you could walk the city of Baltimore in an evening. Thanks to researchers from UMBC, who have created a 3D digital model of Baltimore circa 1815, you can see an approximation of what that walk would have looked like — building-by-building, block-by-block. If you didn’t know...
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Diversity by the numbers: As Howard County has grown, so has its racial and cultural mix
In 1950, Howard County was a primarily rural, predominately white farming community of around 23,000. Since then, the population has grown more than tenfold and diversified — so much so, that in 2012 the county’s Department of Planning and Zoning predicted it would become a “majority minority”...
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Lunar New Year foods: 3 dishes to ring in the Year of the Pig
The hardest part is the rolling. Smoothing the dough into circles for the dumpling wrappers, Ye Jiang makes sure the centers are extra thick to support the weight of the filling. Next, she spoons in a mixture of ground shrimp, pork and leek. Closing up the wrapper, she molds a perfectly-shaped...
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When Mr. Robot met Mr. Poe: the curious case of the chess-playing machine
It was a hot summer day in May 1827, and Johann Maelzel’s robot exhibition was not going well. Crowds had gathered inside Baltimore’s Fountain Inn on Light Street to see the star of the show, a European chess-playing robot (or “automaton,” in the language of the era) that had impressed the likes...
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How one Baltimore comic writer brings James Baldwin's Parisian experience to life
In recent years, James Baldwin’s writings have found new life in the form of various media adaptations: a documentary (“I Am Not Your Negro”), a feature film (“If Beale Street Could Talk”) and now, thanks to Baltimore comic writer Jordan Clark, a comic book. “Still Not Equal,” by Clark and U.K.-based...
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Record number of women to serve in U.S. Congress and Maryland General Assembly
Women hold more of Congress' 535 seats than ever before, though growth in recent years has differed along party lines. Maryland has no women in its delegation.