Case Study: The Marshall Project enables data journalism with Hasura

The Marshall Project speeds data journalism with Hasura

The Marshall Project, a Pulitzer prize-winning non-profit newsroom focused on US criminal justice reform, faced the challenge of making its complex, federated data accessible to its non-technical team of reporters and citizen journalists. They needed a solution that could bridge the gap between domain experts and data engineering, allowing reporters to work with data without needing to understand backend complexity. They used Hasura to address this.

Hasura provided a GraphQL API that exposed relational data in a graph-like way, enabling new methods of data exploration. The solution allowed direct access to optimized Postgres tables while abstracting away the complex joins from end-users. This empowered the newsroom's reporters to leverage the data more effectively, facilitating the creation of more complete and data-driven stories.

The Marshall Project