Remembering John Maines: He knew the numbers had a story to tell

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​John Maines saw stories in numbers long before most journalists knew where to look for them. Give him a government database or a spreadsheet with millions of rows, and John could find the nugget – the pattern that suggested something amiss, the anomaly hidden in ordinary transactions, the numbers that turned a hunch into proof.
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