Tool Mockingjay: A Smarter Repeater
Meet our Twitter bot that follows a list of users and retweets them when they mention a certain topic.
Tool Thank You, Electionbot
Offloading some of a burden of continuous human monitoring to a friendly bot can be just the comfort you need on a cold Election Night.
Roundup Event Roundup, Mar 30
- By Erika Owens
It’s a slow week for events, so why not spend some time proposing talks to upcoming conferences?
Roundup Event Roundup, Mar 23
- By Erika Owens
It’s the last day to apply for grants for women journalists, plus lots of meetups and hackathons this week.
Learning The Evolution of NPR’s Picture Stories
- By Wes Lindamood
- NPR
How NPR’s picture stories have changed—and the design principles and iterative work behind all the changes.
Roundup Event Roundup, Mar 16
- By Erika Owens
Meetups this week in Manchester, Portland, Vienna, and Philadelphia, plus Thursday is the deadline to submit idea to the Knight News Challenge: Elections.
Roundup Event Roundup, Mar 10
- By Erika Owens
Meetups this week in Buenos Aires and La Paz, plus a journalism hackathon before SXSW.
Roundup Event Roundup, Mar 2
- By Erika Owens
This week, hundreds of news nerds will gather in Atlanta for the National Institute of Computer Assisted Reporting’s annual conference.
Roundup Event Roundup, Feb 23
- By Erika Owens
Meetups, trainings, and hackathons around the world this week, plus plenty of opportunities for you to pitch proposals to upcoming events.
Learning Consider the Boolean
- By Jacob Harris
The challenge of using binary data structures in a complicated world.
Roundup Event Roundup, Feb 17
- By Erika Owens
A week full of deadlines: SND competition and SNDMakes application, ONA-Poynter Women’s Leadership Academy, and NICAR Lightning Talks voting.
Learning Understanding Households and Relationships in Census Data
The Census Bureau’s population counts make trends in household makeup easy to track. All you need are two things: an understanding of how the Census asks Americans about households and relationships, and where to find the right tables amid the haystack of tabulations. That’s what this post aims to help you with.
Roundup Event Roundup, Feb 2
- By Erika Owens
Meetups this week in DC and Helsinki, plus a hack day in NYC.
Update Source Hiring & Appreciations
We’re planning many changes and additions to Source over the course of 2015. I’ll write about those as they happen, but our first announcement is about changes behind the scenes. I am very happy to announce a new opening for an assistant editor, to join me and the rest of the team in keeping Source watertight and pointed in the right direction. If that sounds like you or someone you know, please take a look at the job description and send us a résumé.
Roundup Event Roundup, Jan 20
- By Erika Owens
Events around the world this week, plus tons of conferences accepting proposals and other upcoming deadlines.
Learning Connecting with the Dots
Jake Harris on data visualization, empathy, and representing people with dots
Project Scraping Nevada
Derek Willis breaks down the three stages of scraping (denial, annoyance, and acceptance) while confronting the election-results form from hell.
Roundup Event Roundup, Jan 5
- By Erika Owens
Start 2015 off with a talk proposal or apply for a hack curriculum grant.
Project Introducing Bedfellows
The financial relationship between PAC contributors and recipients can be difficult to divine from the information reported to the FEC. Bedfellows is a new Python library based on a model developed at The Upshot for understanding those relationships via several different measures.
Project Tag Soup: Using Custom Elements to Cover Elections and Beyond
How the Seattle Times’ election page served as a testbed for custom elements in a news app, and what it means for other news apps teams.
