Event Election Hacking at MozFest
- By Erin Kissane
- Bloomberg, Knight Lab, NPR, OpenNews, ProPublica, Sourcefabric, The Chicago Tribune, The Financial Times, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Spokesman-Review, The Times and Sunday Times, Ushahidi
At MozFest today in London, OpenNews led a 70-person session on election-related news apps and tools.
Project The NYT’s Visual Election Outcome Explorer
Mike Bostock explains how he and Shan Carter created the 512 Paths interactive feature, from early sketches to complete implementation.
Roundup Event Roundup, Nov 5
- By Erika Owens
This weekend is the Mozilla Festival in London. It’s one of many events over the next month.
Project The Guardian’s Sandy Incidents Map
Simon Rogers on the rapid development of their verified Sandy events map and dataset.
Roundup Superstorm Sandy: Code and Interactives
- By Erin Kissane
- Timothy C. Barmann, John Burn-Murdoch, Andrew Hill, John Keefe, Louise Ma, Steven Melendez, Simon Rogers
- Providence Journal, The Guardian, The New York Times, Vizzuality, WNYC
As superstorm Sandy approached the East Coast of the US, newsdev teams ranging from large to tiny created maps, charts, trackers, and tables about the storm’s path, expected effects, and civic responses.
Roundup Event Roundup, Oct 29
- By Erika Owens
Upcoming events for news developers online and in Europe, Latin America, and Malaysia.
Project WYNC & KPCC’s California Elections Map
- By John Keefe
- Kim Bui, Adam DePrince, Schuyler Duveen, John Keefe, Louise Ma, Glenn Mohre
- KPCC, OpenNews, WNYC
How the WNYC data team turned California’s live elections data into an embeddable map based on a
Roundup The Week In News Dev, Oct 25
The week in journalism code: new projects, updates, releases, APIs, and more.
Project Rhode Island General Assembly Attendance Data
From paper and PDF records to live text to database to interactive tool, step by step.
Roundup Event Roundup, Oct 22
- By Erika Owens
Upcoming events for news developers in London, Washington, DC, New York, Kuala Lumpur, and eight cities throughout South and Central America.
Project Homicides in the District
- By Kat Downs, Serdar Tumgoren
- Kat Downs, Dan Hill, Ted Mellnik, Andrew Metcalf, Cory O’Brien, Cheryl W. Thompson, Serdar Tumgoren
- The Washington Post
How the Washington Post’s development team cleaned the data and built an app to support a 15-month investigation into DC homicide cases.
Roundup The Week In News Dev, Oct 17
The week in journalism code: new projects, updates, releases, APIs, and more.
Project Introducing Opened Captions
Opened Captions makes it easy to create web applications and visualizations that react the second words are spoken on live television.
Project Free the Files API + Q&A with Al Shaw
ProPublica’s interactive data-analysis project gets an API, and Al Shaw answers our development questions about the making of Free the Files.
Interview Jessica Lord on sheetsee.js
Jessica Lord breaks down the context and process behind sheetsee.js, a JavaScript mashup developed during her Code for America fellowship.
Interview Sisi Wei on Code with Me
An interview with Sisi Wei, co-founder of Code with me, an introductory two-day programming workshop for journalists.
Update Source launches Oct. 16
As ONA12 gets going in San Francisco, we’re hitting the last stretch with Source, the OpenNews community and index for news development. We even have a launch date, and it’s…really soon.
Roundup Newsdev Roundup, August 29
- By Erin Kissane
Events, newly released projects, blog posts, and other announcements.
Project Stop & Frisk: Guns
A mapping project from WNYC that displays NYPD stop-and-frisks by block and locations where the police discovered guns during such stops.
Project Miso Project
Miso is an open source toolkit designed to expedite the creation of high-quality interactive storytelling and data visualisation content.
