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 If You Build It, They Will Come…But You Have To Remind Them
- By Chris Keller
- KPCC
KPCC developed a news app to track fires in California last summer. Chris Keller explains how, and what they’ve learned since.
Project How We Made the (New) California Cookbook
- By Megan Garvey, Erin Kissane, Lily Mihalik, Anthony Pesce
- Megan Garvey, Lily Mihalik, Anthony Pesce
- The Los Angeles Times
At the Los Angeles Times, a design-editorial-programming team has resurrected the spirit of the beloved, out-of-print California Cookbook as a new website collecting hundreds of recipes from the Times Test Kitchen. In our Q&A, the project’s editor, designer, and lead programmer share their goals and challenges, and offer a peek at the site’s building blocks and planned future.
Project Let research apps, MVC JavaScript, and APIs work for you
- By Agustin Armendariz, Michael Corey, Aaron Williams
- Agustin Armendariz, Michael Corey, Aaron Williams
- The Center for Investigative Reporting
The Center for Investigative Reporting continues their work visualizing Department of Veterans Affairs’ data. Here, they discuss their development process.
How-to Live Streaming History
The Texas Tribune’s Travis Swicegood explains how his organization handled a massive, unexpected wave of traffic when they became the only news organization closely covering the SB 5 filibuster in Texas.
Learning Freeing the Plum Book
Derek Willis mines government mobile apps to liberate data and issues a call to arms for collaboration.
Learning Olympics Lessons: Data Journalists, Meet Your Audience
The NYT’s Tiff Fehr on figuring out what Olympics fans expected and how her team made them happy.
Roundup Event Roundup, Jan 28
- By Erika Owens
Google Journalism Fellowship deadline is this week. This weekend, learning with Code with me and hacking with the Sunlight Foundation and Digital Democracy.
Project Chase Davis on fec-standardizer
Chase Davis breaks down his fec-standardizer project and explains where it’s going next.
Roundup 2012 in Review: Dan Sinker
Dan Sinker, head of Knight-Mozilla OpenNews, gets a year-in-review post in under the wire.
Roundup 2012 in Review: Shazna Nessa
- By Shazna Nessa
The AP’s Shazna Nessa breaks down five breakthrough design developments and news features from 2012.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
