Roundup Event Roundup, Aug 12
- By Erika Owens
This Saturday is the last day to apply to the Knight-Mozilla Fellowship, plus Django hacking with jail data in Chicago.
Tool Responsive CSS Testing Made Simple with the BBC’s Wraith
- By David Blooman, John Cleveley, Erin Kissane, Simon Thulbourn
- David Blooman, John Cleveley, Simon Thulbourn
- BBC News
Last November, the BBC News team created a front-end regression tool that collects and diffs screenshots to automatically highlight discrepancies produced (intentionally or otherwise) by CSS changes. Last week, the team open-sourced Wraith. We spoke with David Blooman, who developed the tool last fall and worked with Simon Thulbourn to prepare it for public release.
Learning They Are Tweet Zombies!! They Are Followers!!
Jake Harris on how dead accounts and spambots can mess with your Twitter data mojo
Project Fast Hacks: Harnessing Google tools for crowdsourced mapping
On 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.
Roundup Event Roundup, Aug 5
- By Erika Owens
This week is quiet, which leaves you plenty of time to prepare session proposals for the Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires Media Party, Mozilla Festival, and PyCon.
Tool Ultralight CMSes Head to Head
Ultralight CMSes are, in many ways, the product of hacking or infecting the CMS. Here’s a breakdown of a few popular ones, complete with setup instructions, pro/cons, and newsroom case studies.
Roundup Event Roundup, July 29
- By Erika Owens
Start brainstorming ideas for the Hacks/Hackers Media Party and the Mozilla Festival.
Learning Know Your Stats
Read Dave Stanton‘s essential primer on basic statistical principles and you won’t get caught with your data pants down.
Learning Drawing Conclusions from Data
In this OpenNews Learning special, Jonathan Stray presents an equation-free statistics talk on data and the shape of randomness.
Roundup Event Roundup, July 22
- By Erika Owens
Meetups in DC, London, and Jerusalem on Wednesday. And Friday in New York, we’re holding an info session on the Knight-Mozilla Fellowship.
Project Década Votada, a News App to Track Voting Records
- By Mariano Blejman
- Luciano Amor, Gonzalo Bellver, Mariano Blejman, Martín Szyszlican, Andy Tow
- Hacks/Hackers
In April 2013, Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires hosted a hackathon on D3.js. As part of a project co-sponsored by the International Center for Journalists, Knight-Mozilla OpenNews provided seed funding to the winning project, an app called “Década votada” (q decade in votes).
Learning The Perils of Polling Twitter
Jake Harris on just a few of the myriad reasons why using tweets as data is less than ideal.
Tool All About Transcribable
Yesterday, ProPublica released Transcribable, a new open source tool that makes orderly crowdsourced transcription available to any organization that uses Ruby on Rails. ProPublica’s Al Shaw introduced the project to the public in a post on ProPublica’s Nerd Blog yesterday and here answers all our questions about the project.
Roundup Event Roundup, July 15
- By Erika Owens
This week is the summer OpenStreetMap editathon and a media mega mixer in NYC.
Learning Creating Games for Journalism
- By Sisi Wei
- Gabriel Dance, Aron Pilhofer, Al Shaw, Amanda Zamora
- American Public Media, ProPublica, The New York Times
Sisi Wei makes the case for newsgames and shows you how it’s done
Roundup Event Roundup, July 8
- By Erika Owens
Many summertime meetups are taking happy hour form, but in India on Sunday Hacks/Hackers will host lightning talks on data visualization.
Project Meet Poderopedia Plug & Play
Let’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.
Roundup Event Roundup, July 1
- By Erika Owens
July is quiet for events, but there are a few great things happening and it’s never too early to apply for the Knight-Mozilla Fellowship.
Learning Creating The Grid: a Story of Prototyping
Joey Marburger on the prototype process behind creating the Washington Post’s interactive, The Grid
How-to Live Streaming History
The Texas Tribune’s Travis Swicegood explains how his organization handled a massive, unexpected wave of traffic when they became the only news organization closely covering the SB 5 filibuster in Texas.
