Analysis on records
This story discusses the recent outages that have been occurring to the street lights in Detroit. The records that were used were the number of street lights that are in the city, the lights that were reported being out, and the number of people who are in maintenance team. The computer skills that are needed include knowing how to look up public records, and putting up links.
Story: http://www.ire.org/extraextra/government-federalstatelocal/streetlight-outages-plague-detroit/