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Scooty Nickerson
Scooty Nickerson is a Bay Area News Group data reporter for The Mercury News and East Bay Times. Nickerson won a 2021 IRE award for an audio and digital series that investigated worker deaths from heat illness and was reported by Columbia Journalism Investigations and NPR. He received Master's degrees in Applied Social Data Science at the London School of Economics and in Investigative Journalism at Columbia Journalism School. He graduated from Tufts University with a BA degree in history.
Location: San Francisco Bay Area
Language: Spanish
Award: Investigative Editors and Reporters - (2021 - Audio (Large) Award - member of a team that produced an audio and digital series that investigated worker deaths from heat illness)
Expertise: Data, mapping/spatial analysis, statistics, R and Python
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![At some of the homes: 632 reports of missing children, 13 assault and battery incidents, one alleged rape and one fentanyl overdose. At some of the homes: 632 reports of missing children, 13 assault and battery incidents, one alleged rape and one fentanyl overdose.](https://www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/SJM-L-SCATTERSITES-05XX-1.jpg?w=132)
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Santa Clara County running illegal network of group homes for highly troubled children
![Permits in the five-county Bay Area were down last year. Here's what's happening, and why. Permits in the five-county Bay Area were down last year. Here's what's happening, and why.](https://www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/SJM-L-HOUSEPROD-1.jpg?w=132)
5 charts that show which Bay Area cities are building the most housing
![The fire started inside a lithium battery plant when a pile of batteries caught fire Sunday mid-afternoon. The fire started inside a lithium battery plant when a pile of batteries caught fire Sunday mid-afternoon.](https://www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/generic-body-found-police-crime-scene-036.jpg?w=140)
Oakland port area fire at lithium battery plant contained
![A rescue swimmer found the 5-year-old boy submerged in a cove early Saturday evening. A rescue swimmer found the 5-year-old boy submerged in a cove early Saturday evening.](https://www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/EBT-L-DELTACOVE-0318-6.jpg?w=132)
Child dead after East Bay water rescue attempt
![That discount on state-funded naloxone does not necessarily translate to lower prices at the drug-store for everyday shoppers, where naloxone usually costs around $45 per pack of two doses. That discount on state-funded naloxone does not necessarily translate to lower prices at the drug-store for everyday shoppers, where naloxone usually costs around $45 per pack of two doses.](https://www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/SJM-L-NARCMACHINE-15.jpg?w=132)
California strikes deal for cheaper overdose-reversing medication
![A couple who lived at home of 18-month-old Winter Rayo have been criminally charged on allegations they carelessly kept opioids around the child. A couple who lived at home of 18-month-old Winter Rayo have been criminally charged on allegations they carelessly kept opioids around the child.](https://www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SJM-L-WINTER-0418-1_d93961.jpg?w=127)
San Jose: Housemates charged as new murder defendants in 1-year-old’s fentanyl death
![Developers have proposed over 13,000 new units via the builder's remedy in cities around the Bay Area. Developers have proposed over 13,000 new units via the builder's remedy in cities around the Bay Area.](https://www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SJM-L-BUILDERS-01.jpg?w=122)
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This map reveals where supersized ‘builder’s remedy’ projects could be coming
![The official statewide reading clocked in at 110% of normal -- a harbinger of a reliable water supply during the upcoming dry summers months. The official statewide reading clocked in at 110% of normal -- a harbinger of a reliable water supply during the upcoming dry summers months.](https://www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SJM-L-SNOWPACK-0403-2.jpg?w=131)
Gov. Newsom announces updated water plan amid above-average Sierra snowpack
![The driver of the vehicle was transported by ambulance to a hospital after sustaining injuries. The driver of the vehicle was transported by ambulance to a hospital after sustaining injuries.](https://www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/SJM-L-BARTSC-0720-10.jpg?w=136)
Caltrain hits vehicle on track in Atherton on Friday night
![Defendant reportedly stashed the items in two Port of Oakland shipping containers Defendant reportedly stashed the items in two Port of Oakland shipping containers](https://www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/BNG-L-CHINAEXPORT-0809-01.jpg?w=135)