Roundup Event Roundup, Jan 6
- By Erika Owens
It’s a new year and plenty of events are on the horizon: PDF Liberation Hackathon next weekend and many a Hacks/Hackers and ONA meetup.
Learning How and Why Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration Rocks
Wes Lindamood explains the magic of working together from the start with a UX-driven process
Roundup 2013 Wrap-Up, Part 2
- By Erin Kissane
Just before Christmas, we asked you to submit one thing you found helpful or wonderful or excellent this year. Here’s part two of your favorite things—the first half lives here.
Roundup 2013 Wrap-Up, Part 1
- By Erin Kissane
Just before Christmas, we asked you to submit one thing you found helpful or wonderful or excellent this year. The gist where we made the call grew into its own comment ecosystem of awesome links, and we’ve combined those submissions with the ones you emailed and DMed.
Learning Choosing the Right Map Projection
Michael Corey’s guide to smashing the earth for fun and profit
Project Building “The Lobotomy Files”
- By Chris Canipe
- Chris Canipe, Jarrard Cole, Madeline Farbman, Dov Friedman, Robert Libetti, Adele Morgan, Joe Shoulak, Araby Williams
- The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal’s Chris Canipe explains how his team built their second-ever immersive project.
Project About that Guardian Website
Late last week, a good-sized chunk of the newsroom developers I follow on Twitter linked to the Guardian’s open sourced front-end code for their website, documented in full on GitHub. We spoke with with developer manager Matt Chadburn about the project.
Project How We Made the Book Concierge
The team behind the Book Concierge talks about their design work, implementation details, and team dynamics.
Roundup Event Roundup, Dec 10
- By Erika Owens
Start planning your 2014 hack days now. Coming up in January is the PDF Liberation Hackathon.
Project How We Made “Behind the Bloodshed”
- By Anthony DeBarros, Destin Frasier, Erin Kissane, Juan Thomassie
- Anthony DeBarros, Destin Frasier, Jerry Mosemak, Juan Thomassie
- Gannett Digital, USA Today
“Behind the Bloodshed: The Untold Story of America’s Mass Killings,” is a collaboration between the database team at USA Today and Gannett Digital’s interactive applications and design teams. We chatted with Anthony DeBarros of Gannett Digital, with input from colleagues Juan Thomassie and Destin Frasier, on how the project came together.
Learning Making Good News Judgments
- By Shane Shifflett
- Shane Shifflett
- ProPublica, Quartz, The Bay Citizen, The Huffington Post, The New York Times
Shane Shifflett on the fine art of news judgment and why it’s as important for data journalists as ace coding skills.
Project Collaborating on the T-Shirt Project
- By Brian Boyer, Erin Kissane
- Jeremy Bowers, Brian Boyer, Danny DeBelius, Alyson Hurt, Wes Lindamood
- NPR
Back in April of this year, NPR’s Planet Money began a Kickstarter campaign to learn about and report on global supply chains by making a t-shirt and telling the story of its creation from start to finish. The new Visuals team at NPR collaborated on the project’s web manifestation, which went live last night, but the source code is already on GitHub, and we spoke with team lead Brian Boyer about the collaboration.
Roundup Event Roundup, Dec 2
- By Erika Owens
Knight-Mozilla Fellows Sonya Song and Marcos Vanetta will present at events this week and civic hackathons around the world this weekend.
Project How We Made “NSA Files: Decoded”
- By Feilding Cage, Gabriel Dance
- Greg Chen, Gabriel Dance, Kenan Davis, Ewan MacAskill, Nadja Popovich, Kenton Powell, Bob Sacha, Ruth Spencer, Lisa van Gelder
- The Guardian
The Guardian’s Gabriel Dance and Feilding Cage break down their process, from storyboards and video production to major design changes and development challenges.
Roundup Event Roundup, Nov 25
- By Erika Owens
This week, Zurich launches a Hacks/Hackers chapter and Knight-Mozilla Fellow Annabel Church speaks at Hacks/Hackers London.
Project Finding the Story in 150 Million Rows of Data
Al Jazeera America’s Joanna S. Kao on annotating and visualizing the Adobe database hack.
Project How We Made the (New) California Cookbook
- By Megan Garvey, Erin Kissane, Lily Mihalik, Anthony Pesce
- Megan Garvey, Lily Mihalik, Anthony Pesce
- The Los Angeles Times
At the Los Angeles Times, a design-editorial-programming team has resurrected the spirit of the beloved, out-of-print California Cookbook as a new website collecting hundreds of recipes from the Times Test Kitchen. In our Q&A, the project’s editor, designer, and lead programmer share their goals and challenges, and offer a peek at the site’s building blocks and planned future.
Tool SecureDrop, the Open-Source Submission Platform for Journalists and Whistleblowers
Freedom of the Press Foundation executive director Trevor Timm discusses SecureDrop’s evolution and future prospects.
Tool How Promotion Affects Pageviews on the New York Times Website
2013 OpenNews fellow Brian Abelson has been conducting research on pageviews as a metric, and on the relationship between pageviews and promotion at the New York Times during his fellowship there. This article is cross-posted from his blog.
