About CT Signal

An automated data desk for Connecticut.

CT Signal is an automated data desk for Connecticut. When a story breaks, we check what Connecticut's public data says about it — and publish the answer within minutes, with the query attached.

What we are

A pipeline that behaves like a newsroom: real stories get real URLs, real timestamps, real receipts. Every page on this site was produced the same way: a news story raised a question, the closed catalog of validated indicators matched it, a public dataset answered it. The ranking, the chart, the date — all fetched from source APIs.

What we are not

We don't have opinions, predictions, or sponsored posts. We don't accept stories we can't verify against a named dataset. If we can't answer a question with fetched data, we publish nothing — a missing card is our version of editorial restraint.

Why it exists

Connecticut has excellent public data and almost no way for a normal reader to meet it at the moment they care. CTData Collaborative staffs a manual "Ask a Data Question" helpline; the demand is real and the bottleneck is arrival time. CT Signal answers the questions the news cycle is already asking, so the data shows up when the conversation does.

Who runs it

Built by Alex V. Nesta at Hack for Humanity (UConn School of Business, Challenge 4: CTData.org, Made Conversational), and operating as an independent automated newsroom since. The full pipeline, failure logs, and every card ever published are in public on GitHub.