Tyler Dukes on combining the power of data-sorting tools with old-fashioned digging.

If you want to show information with a geographical component, you should start with a map, right? Not so fast, writes Tasneem Raja. Questioning your assumptions can help you make something much more effective.

The NICAR conference is this week, but the news nerd fun doesn’t end there.

The Reuters Graphics team’s unusual Fed interactive grabbed our attention when it appeared late last month and sparked some interesting conversations on Twitter. Reuters Global Head of Graphics Maryanne Murray and Interactive Data Designer Charlie Szymanski kindly wrote up their rationale and process for us.

Today, we’re launching Source Jobs, a new place to list jobs for the newsroom designers and developers already populating our Community section—and for the curious developers and designers who don’t yet realize that their future lies in journalism. As the global journalism-code community continues to grow, our goal is to offer a simple, scalable listings service that newsrooms can edit on their own.

Christopher Groskopf’s tricks for going to the office without going to the office.

Sheetdown is a command line Node.js module for turning a Google Spreadsheet into a Markdown (well, actually, a GitHub Flavored Markdown) table. It started with a tweet…

This week, vote on NICAR lightning talks, pitch ideas to Tribeca Hacks , and finish up that AP-Google Scholarship application.

Vox Media’s VP of technology breaks down the hard and frequently messy lessons his organization has learned about clearing the way for successful tech collaboration in newsrooms.

Send your NICAR lightning talk proposals now and check out ONA and Hackers/Hackers meetups this week.

As part of the orientation week for the 2014 class of Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Fellows, fellow nerd-cuber Mike Tigas and I led a hackathon at Mozilla’s headquarters in San Francisco…

More things learned about process, expectations, and how to build a functioning team in two days, from Dan Sinker and the 2014 OpenNews Fellows.

At the Mozilla Festival last fall, a team from the Broadcasting Board of Governors launched KettleCorn, their fork of the Mozilla video-editing tool Popcorn.

Fellowship deadlines, conference proposal pitches, and Hacks/Hackers web scraping.

KPCC developed a news app to track fires in California last summer. Chris Keller explains how, and what they’ve learned since.

Hacks/Hackers meetups around Europe and the U.S. this week, plus, hacking European Parliament data this weekend.

Time’s interactive graphic editor explains how he built a not-so-random film blurb madlibs generator in the run-up to the Academy Awards.

David Eads wants to start a conversation about the power of data-driven journalism to engage and teach new developers, and he needs your feedback.

The code and thinking behind NPR’s implementation of the JPEG “filmstrip” technique in “Planet Money Makes A T-Shirt.”