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The Perils of Polling Twitter

By Jacob Harris

Posted on July 18, 2013
Jake Harris on just a few of the myriad reasons why using tweets as data is less than ideal.
Creating Games for Journalism

By Sisi Wei

Posted on July 11, 2013
Sisi Wei makes the case for newsgames and shows you how it’s done
Creating The Grid: a Story of Prototyping

By Joey Marburger

Posted on June 28, 2013
Joey Marburger on the prototype process behind creating the Washington Post’s interactive, The Grid
Handling Data about Race and Ethnicity

By Matt Waite

Posted on June 20, 2013
Or, how Matt Waite got his butt kicked.
Visual Literacy in an Age of Data

By Shazna Nessa

Posted on June 13, 2013
Shazna Nessa explains visual literacy and why it’s critical for data visualizers to take it seriously.
Men’s NCAA Interactive: Redesigning Bracket Slightly Easier than Winning It

By Sean McDade

Posted on June 6, 2013
Sean McDade reinvents the wheel with the Associated Press Final Four Interactive.
Design Principles for News Apps & Graphics

By Lena Groeger

Posted on May 30, 2013
Lena Groeger’s lowdown on how to apply classic design principles to your newfangled interactive graphics and apps.
What You Need Is a News Peg

By Ben Welsh

Posted on May 22, 2013
Ben Welsh on making data journalism work with that time-honored strategy, the news peg
Predicting the Future, Elections Edition

By Jeremy Bowers

Posted on May 16, 2013
Wherein Jeremy Bowers gets help from experts, builds an election-predicting app, and makes sure readers can see how it works.
Sane Data Updates Are Harder than You Think: Part 2

By Adrian Holovaty

Posted on May 9, 2013
Second in a three-part series by Adrian Holovaty about hairy data-parsing problems from a journalist’s perspective
Finding Stories in the Structure of Data

By Matt Waite

Posted on May 2, 2013
Matt Waite sees structure in unstructured data, and you should too.
London Calling: Winning the Data Olympics

By Jacqui Maher

Posted on April 25, 2013
Jacqui Maher on wrangling massively complex, really messy data in (almost) realtime.
Freeing the Plum Book

By Derek Willis

Posted on April 11, 2013
Derek Willis mines government mobile apps to liberate data and issues a call to arms for collaboration.
Olympics Lessons: Data Journalists, Meet Your Audience

By Tiff Fehr

Posted on April 5, 2013
The NYT’s Tiff Fehr on figuring out what Olympics fans expected and how her team made them happy.
How the Data Sausage Gets Made

By Jacob Harris

Posted on March 28, 2013
Jacob Harris explains the perils of making government food safety data usable for journalistic research.
Public Info Doesn’t Always Want to Be Free

By Matt Waite

Posted on March 11, 2013
Matt Waite on how using mug shots of recently arrested perps lead to a cascading set of ethical quandaries.
Sane Data Updates Are Harder than You Think

By Adrian Holovaty

Posted on March 11, 2013
First in a three-part series by Adrian Holovaty about hairy data-parsing problems from a journalist’s perspective