Rebekah Jones
publication date: Monday, June 15, 2020 (part of Summer 2020)
category: 
Controversy
clue: How many Floridians are dying of COVID-19? The state doesn't want this fired data scientist telling you differently than they do.
explanation: Jones worked for the state of Florida when she built a dashboard website to share COVID-19 data in one convenient place. She claims that she was fired for refusing to manipulate the numbers to make the state look better off than it was. She has since launched her own competing similar website. more…
intended difficulty: easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, LaVonne Lemler, Samir Mehta, Chris Lemler, Denise Sawicki, and Erik Bates
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