Event Projects from the OpenNews-MIT Hack Day
On the weekend leading into the Knight-MIT Civic Media Conference, Knight-Mozilla OpenNews and MIT sponsored a hack day focused on data liberation and housed at the MIT Media Lab.
Roundup Event Roundup, June 24
- By Erika Owens
This week, open data in Latin America and Hacks/Hackers meetups in London and NYC.
Roundup Event Roundup, June 17
- By Erika Owens
Big week for OpenNews: we opened up applications for 2014 Knight-Mozilla Fellows today and we’re hacking in Boston this weekend. Also this week, hack events in Romania, Chile, and France.
Project How We Made It: Your Hospital May Be Hazardous To Your Health
- By Justin Falcone
- Justin Falcone, Scott Klein, Nicholas Krusick, Matthew McVickar, Michael Nieling, Al Shaw
Your Hospital may be Hazardous to Your Health is an interactive web presentation on the widespread danger of in-hospital injury, built in a single week by PBS Frontline, ProPublica, and Ocupop.
Learning Visual Literacy in an Age of Data
Shazna Nessa explains visual literacy and why it’s critical for data visualizers to take it seriously.
Event OpenVis Conf Wrap-Up and Videos
- By Erin Kissane
- Amanda Cox, Gabriel Florit, Tom MacWright, Kim Rees, Miguel Rios, Doug Schepers, Juan Velasco
The first ever OpenVis Conf, held last month in Cambridge, MA, was jam-packed with excellent talks. All the talks are now online, and we’ve pulled out a selection of special interest to people working in and around journalism.
Project Slouching Toward Sensor Journalism
Matt Waite explains his drought sensor project and breaks down the promise of sensor journalism.
Roundup Event Roundup, June 10
- By Erika Owens
DataBootCamp in Bolivia this week and municipal data hacking in Johannesburg on Saturday.
Project How We Made Finding Care
- By David Eads, Maria Ines Zamudio
- David Eads, Yana Kunichoff, Wilberto Morales, Lucio Villa, Maria Ines Zamudio
- The Chicago Reporter, The Chicago Tribune
The Chicago MigraHack, held earlier this month, focused on the use of technology and open data to produce innovative apps and information tools on immigration and related topics. Nine teams participated, and we spoke with two members of the team that produced Finding Care, winner of the prize for best storytelling with data visualization.
Learning Men’s NCAA Interactive: Redesigning Bracket Slightly Easier than Winning It
Sean McDade reinvents the wheel with the Associated Press Final Four Interactive.
Project Lessons of Running My First News Apps Team
AP Google Scholar and former Trib Apps intern Tyler Fisher breaks down what he and his team got wrong, and what they did right.
Roundup Event Roundup, June 3
- By Erika Owens
Two local ONA chapter meetups this week, and later this June, join Knight-Mozilla OpenNews at MIT.
Event The Boston Globe’s Gabriel Florit on Responsive Visualizations
Gabriel Florit creates data visualizations at the Boston Globe, and was at OpenVis Conf to talk about the surprising difficulties of bringing the principles of responsive design to data viz.
Learning Design Principles for News Apps & Graphics
Lena Groeger‘s lowdown on how to apply classic design principles to your newfangled interactive graphics and apps.
Project Creating an API of Veterans Affairs’ data
- By Cole Goins, Erika Owens, Shane Shifflett
- Cole Goins, Shane Shifflett
- The Center for Investigative Reporting
The Center for Investigative Reporting recently released an API of data from the US Department of Veterans Affairs, which it compiled in reporting on a backlog of disability claims.
Roundup Event Roundup, May 28
- By Erika Owens
This weekend is the National Day of Civic Hacking in cities around the U.S. including an event focused on supporting Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts in Rockaway Beach and one focused on immigration in Chicago.
Project Meet Tarbell
Introducing a very simple content management system from the Tribapps team (and friends).
Project The Nerd Side of the Reuters.com Redesign
In early May, Reuters began rolling out previews of its new design for Reuters.com. We checked in with Paul Smalera, Editorial Tools Product Manager and Technology Editor at Reuters.com, who fought his way out from under a stack of redesign-related work to answer our questions.
Event Twitter’s Miguel Rios on Choosing Viz Methods
In our second dispatch from OpenVis Conf, Twitter's Miguel Rios digs into four major options for displaying visualizations on the web.
