Roundup Event Roundup, Dec 15
- By Erika Owens
Close out 2015 with a local meetup or check out some upcoming deadlines.
Learning Marriage Data: It’s Complicated
D’Vera Cohn on Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Marriage Data But Were Afraid to Ask
Project Reporting from the Youngest Land on Earth
How ProPublica and The Lens got the aerial photos they needed to produce Losing Ground.
Roundup Event Roundup, Dec 8
- By Erika Owens
This week are many Hacks/Hackers holiday parties as well as your last chance to vote for the NICAR 15 T-Shirt.
Project How to Build an App for 14 Member Newsrooms
What INN’s newsroom technology team learned about inter-organizational collaboration while building Power Players, and what they’ll do differently next time.
Project Introducing Clarify
An open source elections-data URL locator and parser for Clarity Elections results, from the team at OpenElections.
Project Introducing MinnPost’s Election Night API
The Election Night API is a set of tools, configurations, and instructions to collect and serve election results on election night, while still providing an off-season service, and focusing on saving resources as much as possible.
Project Introducing Wherewolf
Last week, as part of the OpenNews post-election Code Convening, Jenny Ye and Noah Veltman put the finishing touches on Wherewolf, a JavaScript library that lets you run a boundary service in a browser.
Learning Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Elections Scraping
Jeremy Merrill and Ken Schwencke explore the fine art of anticipating and catching errors while wrangling the eccentricities of US elections data.
Project Introducing Whippersnapper
As part of the OpenNews Code Convening held earlier this month, we’re releasing Whippersnapper—an automated screenshot tool to keep a visual history of content on the web. It builds on top of other open source projects to capture and upload screenshots of a web page, giving users creative power to track how the internet visually changes.
Event Return of the Code Convenings: Elections and Updates
- By Erin Kissane
- Geoff Hing, Erik Hinton, Alyson Hurt, Tom Nehil, Alan Palazzolo, Katie Park, Ryan Pitts, Kevin Schaul, Noah Veltman, Ben Welsh, Derek Willis, Jenny Ye
- California Civic Data Coalition, MinnPost, NPR, OpenElections, OpenNews, ProPublica, The New York Times, The Washington Post, WNYC
Earlier this month, we held our third-ever OpenNews Code Convening, and our first one west of Portland, Oregon. Code Convenings are short events that bring together pairs of developers from news organizations to finish, document, and release open source projects they’ve been chipping away at.
Project Tracking a Record Run Throughout the Season
At the beginning of the season, it looked like Dallas Cowboys running back DeMarco Murray might break a record this season. John Hancock explains the interactive the Dallas Morning News put together to track Murray’s progress.
Project Stealing the NPR App Template for Fun and (Non-)Profit
- By Kaeti Hinck, Denise Malan, Ryan Nagle, Adam Schweigert
- Kaeti Hinck, Denise Malan, Ryan Nagle, Adam Schweigert
- INN
This month, just in time for the election, our team at the Investigative News Network (INN) launched Power Players—a state-by-state exploration of campaign finance and top political donors across the country. Here’s how we used NPR’s App Template to make it work.
Roundup Event Roundup, Nov 17
- By Erika Owens
Today is the deadline to submit talk ideas to OpenVis Conf and FOSS4G, and later this week a hackathon in Bogotá.
Roundup Event Roundup, Nov 9
- By Erika Owens
Conferences are happening this week in Missouri and Berlin, plus meetups around the US.
Project Introducing Pulp and Pulp Press
Al Jazeera America’s Michael Keller explains how his team designed and built its first piece of comics journalism.
Project The Guardian Launches an Open Redesign for US Readers
The new site is responsive, speedy, and fully backed by new tools for journalists. We spoke with the project’s leaders about their experience, the new features, and what they have planned for the future.
Roundup Event Roundup, Oct 20
- By Erika Owens
Events are happening this weekend in West Virginia, Munich, Córdoba, and of course, London for the Mozilla Festival.
Learning The Census of Governments Has Your Number
Michael Maciag‘s walk-through of this under-utilized goldmine.
Event CrowData Grows Up
A La Nación hackathon to enhance the open-source file-freeing tool behind VozData results in a better CrowData and a tall list of changes to come.
