Features
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.
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.
Roundup Event Roundup, Oct 13
- By Erika Owens
Events in New York, Bogotá, and London, plus the deadline for the next OpenNews code convening.
How-to Twitter Mapping: Foundations
Twitter’s data editor lays out the major challenges and opportunities that arise when you set out to map tweets.
Project The Case for Flat Files in Big Data Projects
Time’s Chris Wilson and Pratheek Rebala open up the enormous Open Payments dataset from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services using flat files and Ajax.
Roundup Event Roundup, Oct 6
- By Erika Owens
Hacks/Hackers are meeting up in four countries this week, plus applications are open to participate in a hackathon at Al Jazeera.
Tool Eleven Awesome Things You Can Do with csvkit
Christopher Groskopf, master of CSVs, breaks down the magical powers of csvkit.
Roundup Event Roundup, Sept 29
- By Erika Owens
Conferences in Japan and Mexico, plus meetups in New York and Vienna.
Project Package Data Like Software, and the Stories Will Flow Like Wine
The California Civic Data Coalition issues a challenge.
Project Introducing the California Civic Data Coalition
Launching with two new Django applications ready made to make California campaign finance data easier to access.
Project Video Synchronization for Collective Viewing
- By Brian Chirls
POV’s Brian Chirls on why video sync is a giant pain and how to make it work.
Project Empire: Lessons from Pushing the Boundaries of Web Video
Brian Chirls introduces an ambitious video framework for a challenging interactive documentary.
Roundup Event Roundup, Sept 22
- By Erika Owens
Web journalism lovers descend on Chicago this year for the Online News Association annual conference.
Roundup Event Roundup, Sept 8
- By Erika Owens
Hacks/Hackers meeting up in Europe, and geography nerds in Portland, OR this week.
