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Roundup EveryBlock Why EveryBlock Mattered to Us

Why EveryBlock Mattered to Us

Yesterday morning, EveryBlock announced its sudden closure by its parent company, NBC. The news developer and civic code worlds reacted with intense sadness and a recognition of the advances made possible by EveryBlock and its founders.

Roundtable dataviz A Conversation with Data Visualization Experts

A Conversation with Data Visualization Experts

Sha Hwang and I brought together a panel of four experts—Rachel Binx, Mike Bostock, Tom Carden, and Scott Murray—to talk about their processes last month at San Francisco’s General Assembly. Here’s what we learned.

Roundup Code in Journalism Roundup, February 7th

Code in Journalism Roundup, February 7th

In the last couple of weeks, we’ve seen new apps, new map releases, and plenty of community projects and conversations. In the US, the NICAR convention is around the corner (see Chrys Wu’s preparatory write-up). Also, just about everyone got hacked.

Roundup events Event Roundup, Feb 4

Event Roundup, Feb 4

Get in application gear: Friday is the last day to apply for the AP-Google Scholarship and session proposals for the IRE conference are due in two weeks.

Project podcasts Chris Amico on the View Source Podcast

Chris Amico on the View Source Podcast

On the most recent episode of Dave Stanton’s View Source podcast, Chris Amico walks through the process of making Your Warming World.

Project Solr CMS search Fast Hacks: Solr and Newscoop

Fast Hacks: Solr and Newscoop

News startups in and around Georgia helped improve search in Newscoop content management system using Solr.

Roundup events Event Roundup, Jan 28

Event Roundup, Jan 28

Google Journalism Fellowship deadline is this week. This weekend, learning with Code with me and hacking with the Sunlight Foundation and Digital Democracy.

Project campaign finance Python Django machine learning Chase Davis on fec-standardizer

Chase Davis on fec-standardizer

Chase Davis breaks down his fec-standardizer project and explains where it’s going next.

Project jQuery TileMill mapping climate change Leaflet Panoply NetCDF MapBox Highcharts Backbone How We Made “Your Warming World”

How We Made "Your Warming World"

New Scientist’s Peter Aldhous and NPR’s Chris Amico break down the data, mapping, and interface details of their collaboration on Your Warming World.

Roundup events Event Roundup, Jan 22

Event Roundup, Jan 22

Meetups in Philadelphia, New York, and Madrid on Thursday and learning and hacking this weekend.

Roundup Code in Journalism Roundup, January 17th

Code in Journalism Roundup, January 17th

Interactive features, new code, and blog posts dealing with the problems of working with data and code in and around newsrooms.

Roundup events Event Roundup, Jan 14

Event Roundup, Jan 14

Lots of opportunities for learning: events in Philadelphia and Vienna as well as fellowship programs taking applications now.

Project second screen chat socket.io Tabletop Instagram Heroku Twitter sports Fast Hacks: GameDay Live

Fast Hacks: GameDay Live

The Daily Emerald’s Ivar Vong breaks down a homepage takeover experiment.

Roundup events Event Roundup, Jan 7

Event Roundup, Jan 7

New year and lots of event planning underway. Plus, we’re entering awards entry season: the IRE deadline is this Friday.

Roundup year in review 2012 2012 in Review: Dan Sinker

Dan Sinker, head of Knight-Mozilla OpenNews, gets a year-in-review post in under the wire.

Roundup year in review 2012 2012 in Review: Ryan Pitts

2012 in Review: Ryan Pitts

Our own Ryan Pitts on the tools that helped him do better work and the projects and sites that inspired him in 2012.

Roundup year in review 2012 2012 in Review: Heather Billings

The Chicago Tribune’s Heather Billings talks about the methods, tools, and changes that made her year.

Roundup year in review 2012 2012 in Review: Shazna Nessa

2012 in Review: Shazna Nessa

The AP’s Shazna Nessa breaks down five breakthrough design developments and news features from 2012.

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