Learning data Freeing the Plum Book

• By Derek Willis
• Derek Willis
• GovTrack, The New York Times, The Sunlight Foundation

Derek Willis mines government mobile apps to liberate data and issues a call to arms for collaboration.

Project animation mapping interactive Google Maps JSON Replaying A Night in the Life of a Cabbie

• By Dan Schultz
• Dan Schultz
• Boston Globe Media

At 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.

Learning data Olympics Lessons: Data Journalists, Meet Your Audience

• By Tiff Fehr
• Tiff Fehr
• The New York Times

The NYT’s Tiff Fehr on figuring out what Olympics fans expected and how her team made them happy.

Project bill tracking statewide open states api Google Docs Tabletop JavaScript Launching the Minnesota Legislative Bill Tracker

• By Beth Hawkins, Kaeti Hinck, Tom Nehil, James Nord, Erika Owens, Alan Palazzolo
• Beth Hawkins, Kaeti Hinck, Tom Nehil, James Nord, Alan Palazzolo
• MinnPost

This week, MinnPost launched an effort to track legislation in Minnesota throughout the 2013 session.

Roundup events Event Roundup, Apr 1

• By Erika Owens

Applications open this week for Code with me: Portland. Plus, National Conference for Media Reform this weekend.

Learning data How the Data Sausage Gets Made

• By Jacob Harris
• Jacob Harris
• The New York Times

Jacob Harris explains the perils of making government food safety data usable for journalistic research.

Roundup events Event Roundup, Mar 25

• By Erika Owens

Hacks/Hackers meetups in Rochester, Berlin, and Boston this week. Plus, today is the last day to apply for Grants for Innovation in Development Reporting.

Roundup roundup Apps + Code + Viz Roundup, March 21

• By Erin Kissane

It’s been a fruitful couple of weeks for news apps and people writing about them: this roundup brings a sturdy batch of new features and tools and about twice as many write-ups as usual.

Roundup events Event Roundup, Mar 18

• By Erika Owens

The Knight News Challenge deadline is today Tuesday at 5pm Eastern Daylight Time. (Due to technical difficulties, the deadline has been extended one day.)

Project analysis JRuby OpenNLP JSON Under the Hood of the Open Gender Tracker

• By Erin Kissane, J. Nathan Matias, Irene Ros
• Adam Hyland, J. Nathan Matias, Irene Ros
• Bocoup, MIT Center for Civic Media

Open Gender Tracker is an open source deployable content analysis service funded by a Knight Foundation Prototype grant. We spoke with its creators about the project’s origins, technical specifications, and possible future in and near newsrooms.

Update case studies Welcome to OpenNews Learning on Source

• By Erin Kissane
• Adrian Holovaty, Miranda Mulligan, Kio Stark, Matt Waite

Today, we launched OpenNews Learning, a brand-new kind of awesomeness hosted here on Source. We’re opening with three crunchy case studies from three heavy hitters.

Learning ethics Public Info Doesn’t Always Want to Be Free

• By Matt Waite
• Matt Waite

Matt Waite on how using mug shots of recently arrested perps lead to a cascading set of ethical quandaries.

Learning data Sane Data Updates Are Harder than You Think

• By Adrian Holovaty
• Adrian Holovaty
• EveryBlock

First in a three-part series by Adrian Holovaty about hairy data-parsing problems from a journalist’s perspective

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