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Articles tagged: mapping
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Let research apps, MVC JavaScript, and APIs work for you
By Agustin Armendariz, Michael Corey, and Aaron Williams
Posted onThe Center for Investigative Reporting continues their work visualizing Department of Veterans Affairs’ data. Here, they discuss their development process.
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Mapping Made Simple, Now with Bonus UI
By Alan Palazzolo
Posted onIntroducing the double-whammy of Simple Map D3 and Tulip, a new mapping app from MinnPost.
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Fast Hacks: Harnessing Google tools for crowdsourced mapping
By Chris Keller
Posted onOn his second day at KPCC, Chris Keller and team wanted to build a crowdsourced map of experiences at the polls. Here’s how they did it and what they learned for the next election day.
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Meet Poderopedia Plug & Play
By Miguel Paz
Posted onLet’s say you would like to map politicians and their connections, build a semantic database of companies and top executives in a specific industry, or create a visualization of lobbyists and their clients. With Poderopedia’s free, open source Plug & Play Platform, you can.
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Mapping the History of Street Names
By Noah Veltman
Posted onOpenNews Fellow Noah Veltman breaks down the design and code decisions behind his History of SF Place Names map.
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Replaying A Night in the Life of a Cabbie
By Dan Schultz
Posted onAt The Boston Globe, I was charged with helping readers understand that struggle—to experience a night in the life of a cab driver—using a digital interactive. The result was published alongside an amazing article by the Globe’s resident journalist-sportswriter-cabbie, Bob Hohler.
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Meet Gustavo Faleiros
By Gustavo Faleiros and Erin Kissane
Posted onThe second in a series of interviews with Knight International Journalism Fellows.
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How We Made “Your Warming World”
By Peter Aldhous, Chris Amico, and Erin Kissane
Posted onNew Scientist’s Peter Aldhous and NPR’s Chris Amico break down the data, mapping, and interface details of their collaboration on Your Warming World.
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Anatomy of the “Living Apart” map
By Jeff Larson and Erika Owens
Posted onLast month, ProPublica launched the Living Apart series with an investigation into the Fair Housing Act of 1968 and an interactive map showing the migration of African Americans from 1890-2010.
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Spokesman-Review Holiday Lights Map
By Ryan Pitts
Posted onRyan Pitts breaks down the recipe for a holiday lights map app, with special nods to artisanal admin interfaces and full-screen BoyerMaps.
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The Making of ProPublica’s Pipeline Safety Feature
By Lena Groeger and Erin Kissane
Posted onLast week, ProPublica released an explainer on fires, chemical spills, explosions, and other incidents related to US oil and gas pipelines, along with an interactive map and a series of charts and tables. Reporter-designer-developer Lena Groeger explains how the project came about, what challenges she encountered, and how she assembled the final presentation.
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Mother Jones’ Voter Suppression Map
By Tasneem Raja
Posted onHow the Mother Jones nerd desk whipped up a multi-layered map of verified incidents of voter suppression for the 2012 US elections.
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The Guardian’s Sandy Incidents Map
By Simon Rogers
Posted onSimon Rogers on the rapid development of their verified Sandy events map and dataset.
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Superstorm Sandy: Code and Interactives
By Erin Kissane
Posted onAs superstorm Sandy approached the East Coast of the US, newsdev teams ranging from large to tiny created maps, charts, trackers, and tables about the storm’s path, expected effects, and civic responses.
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WYNC & KPCC’s California Elections Map
By John Keefe
Posted onHow the WNYC data team turned California’s live elections data into an embeddable map based on a
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Stop & Frisk: Guns
By Erin Kissane
Posted onA mapping project from WNYC that displays NYPD stop-and-frisks by block and locations where the police discovered guns during such stops.
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