Alpha versions
Before this site existed, there were two originals — built with Common Wealth Development. This page hosts them as-is: the narrative that made the case, and the data tool that proved it. Nothing here has been rebuilt or restyled; the alpha versions are exactly what shipped first.
The narrative
Five households, five alarm clocks, the same city. A data-journalism piece built on real Dane County tract-level data — the household names are invented composites, the numbers are not — that makes the case for what the Atlas measures.
Originally built with Common Wealth Development.
The data tool
The self-contained data viewer this whole project grew out of: 125 Dane County census tracts, 22 data layers, one map. This is the original export, byte-for-byte — CWD branding intact, nothing re-themed.
Originally built with Common Wealth Development.
The narrative, rebuilt
The ground-up successor to Five Mornings — the same tract-level rigor, told in Madison Equity Data's own voice, with every figure rated for confidence (T1–T5) and the data's honest gaps left visible instead of filled in. The first complete chapter is ready: a composite household, openly disclosed as a composite, set in the county's highest-risk neighborhood. Four more to come.
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