Project Draw Your Own Election Adventure
- By Juan Elosua
- Cristian Bertelegni, Gastón de la Llana, Juan Elosua, Pablo Loscri, Mariana Trigo Viera
- La Nación
At La Nación, we have been working on real-time coverage of Buenos Aires elections, as well as a more detailed view results once we get data for each polling station. In this post, we’ll to explain our mapping-app innovation that allows readers to choose what parts of the city they are interested in by drawing shapes over a basemap, and then returns custom results for their selected area.
Tool Thank You, Electionbot
Offloading some of a burden of continuous human monitoring to a friendly bot can be just the comfort you need on a cold Election Night.
Project Scraping Nevada
Derek Willis breaks down the three stages of scraping (denial, annoyance, and acceptance) while confronting the election-results form from hell.
Project Introducing Clarify
An open source elections-data URL locator and parser for Clarity Elections results, from the team at OpenElections.
Project Introducing MinnPost’s Election Night API
The Election Night API is a set of tools, configurations, and instructions to collect and serve election results on election night, while still providing an off-season service, and focusing on saving resources as much as possible.
Project Introducing Wherewolf
Last week, as part of the OpenNews post-election Code Convening, Jenny Ye and Noah Veltman put the finishing touches on Wherewolf, a JavaScript library that lets you run a boundary service in a browser.
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 US Elections Roundup, November 2013
A light round of elections were held this week in the US, giving news developers an opportunity to outdo their usual coverage. We’ve rounded up a few highlights.
How-to Watching the Results Change
Jacob Harris on the challenges of reporting and calling elections and the making of the NYT’s chart of minute-by-minute Virginia governor’s race reporting action.
Roundup Event Roundup, May 13
- By Erika Owens
This weekend, Code with me comes to Austin and lo-fi hacking in Chile.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
