Features
Roundup 2012 in Review: Al Shaw
- By Al Shaw
ProPublica’s Al Shaw breaks down five outstanding news apps and interactive design choices from 2012, and one game-changer from 2011.
Roundup 2012 in Review: Miranda Mulligan
Knight Lab executive director Miranda Mulligan talks about five awesome things from the tech-in-news world from 2012.
Roundup Code in Journalism Roundup
Interactive features, new code, and blog posts dealing with the problems of working with data and code in and around newsrooms.
Roundup Event Roundup, Dec 17
- By Erika Owens
The last event roundup of the year. Why not spend break applying for some fellowships or awards competitions?
Project Anatomy of the “Living Apart” map
Last month, ProPublica launched the Living Apart series with an investigation into the Fair Housing Act of 1968 and an interactive map showing the migration of African Americans from 1890-2010.
Roundup Event Roundup, Dec 10
- By Erika Owens
The year’s winding down, but there’s at least one more hackathon.
Project Spokesman-Review Holiday Lights Map
Ryan Pitts breaks down the recipe for a holiday lights map app, with special nods to artisanal admin interfaces and full-screen BoyerMaps.
Roundup Event Roundup, Dec 3
- By Erika Owens
Immigration hackathon this weekend in Los Angeles and an intro programming training tonight.
Project The New York Times’ Election Results Loader
- By Jacob Harris
- Brian Hamman, Jacob Harris, Jacqui Maher, Michael Strickland, Derek Willis
- The New York Times
Jacob Harris breaks down the data, the code choices, and the rationales behind the NYT’s results loader for the US 2012 elections.
Roundup Event Roundup, Nov 26
- By Erika Owens
Knight Lab and local Hacks/Hackers meetups this week. Two multi-city, international hackathons this weekend as well as a Hurricane Sandy hackathon in New York.
Project How NPR Designed Their Live Elections News App
- By Alyson Hurt
- Jeremy Bowers, Brian Boyer, Danny DeBelius, Tyler Fisher, Jeremy Gilbert, Christopher Groskopf, Alyson Hurt
- NPR
Alyson Hurt explains how the NPR apps team created, tested, and built its Swing State Scorecard and covered results on Election Night.
Project The Making of ProPublica’s Pipeline Safety Feature
Last week, ProPublica released an explainer on fires, chemical spills, explosions, and other incidents related to US oil and gas pipelines, along with an interactive map and a series of charts and tables. Reporter-designer-developer Lena Groeger explains how the project came about, what challenges she encountered, and how she assembled the final presentation.
Roundup Event Roundup, Nov 19
- By Erika Owens
More hacking in London this weekend, and looking ahead: multi-city international hackathons next weekend and a hackathon focused on immigration in early December. Plus, trainings, meetups, and a fellowship deadline.
Roundup News Development Roundup, Nov 16
- By Erin Kissane
- Mother Jones, ProPublica, The Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, WNYC
A weekend-friendly rundown of the many projects from the last two weeks that have absolutely nothing to do with elections.
Project Mother Jones’ Voter Suppression Map
How the Mother Jones nerd desk whipped up a multi-layered map of verified incidents of voter suppression for the 2012 US elections.
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.
