A timecard. (Photo illustration)

Timely snapshots of the effect of the novel coronavirus on workers at small and medium-sized businesses in the Bay Area, state and nation are the result of a new project by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Chicago, social scientists at UC Berkeley’s California Policy Lab said recently.

The researchers will be providing weekly snapshots of changes in hours worked since before the COVID-19 pandemic began using data from Homebase, a software firm that provided data from workers’ timecards.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.