Project campaign finance data analysis APIs Free the Files API + Q&A with Al Shaw

• By Erin Kissane, Al Shaw
• Scott Klein, Jeremy B. Merrill, Al Shaw, Amanda Zamora
• ProPublica

ProPublica’s interactive data-analysis project gets an API, and Al Shaw answers our development questions about the making of Free the Files.

Project Varnish Solr Ruby on Rails community WordPress education 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.