Features
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.
Project PAC Track
Expenditure tracking for super PACs during the 2012 election campaign, showing filings and contributor data.
Project Illinois School Report Cards
A tool for Chicago-area parents to compare school performance data, and a home for the Tribune’s reporting on school performance.
Project Florida’s Stand Your Ground Law
We assembled a database of stand your ground cases in Florida to encourage people to explore the cases to see how the law was being applied. We did this because no government entity was tracking such cases.
Project SchoolBook
- By Tyson Evans
- Jeremy Ashkenas, Kim Bost, Ahn Dang, Tyson Evans, Robert Gebeloff, Mary Ann Giordano, Brian Hamman, Jacqui Maher
- The New York Times, WNYC
The New York Times and WNYC have joined forces on a new site dedicated to news, data and conversation about schools in New York City. SchoolBook is now the main place to find coverage of schools in New York by The Times and WNYC. SchoolBook’s home page will mix those news, feature and multimedia stories with essays by members of the education community, as well as photos, videos, queries, comments and more.
