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Matt Waite is the News Technologist for the St. Petersburg Times/Tampabay.com. He is the principal developer of PolitiFact, a data-driven site that fact checks things powerful people in Washington D.C. are saying. He is also the developer of Neighborhood Watch, a fully automated local real estate site that uses databases of home sales information to provide neighborhood level home price stories, graphics and trends.

Previously, he was an investigative reporter for the Times, the winner of several national awards for a series of stories on Florida's vanishing wetlands. That series of stories is now being published as a book, titled Paving Paradise: Florida's Vanishing Wetlands and the Failure of No Net Loss.

This site is his personal website. The opinions expressed here are his own and not his employers. We're both happier that way.