Tool Electron desktop apps Introducing Aufbau

• By Michael Keller
• Michael Keller
• Al Jazeera America

Remembering where all our tools live and how to use them can be tiresome, even for us. As a potential solution, we’re experimenting with packaging these previously web apps into a desktop application using GitHub’s Electron framework, which NPR has also been experimenting with for photo tools. The project is called Aufbau and it’s up on GitHub.

Project jPlayer Google Spreadsheets Highcharts hackathon Tarbell How We Made Finding Care

• By David Eads, Maria Ines Zamudio
• David Eads, Yana Kunichoff, Wilberto Morales, Lucio Villa, Maria Ines Zamudio
• The Chicago Reporter, The Chicago Tribune

The Chicago MigraHack, held earlier this month, focused on the use of technology and open data to produce innovative apps and information tools on immigration and related topics. Nine teams participated, and we spoke with two members of the team that produced Finding Care, winner of the prize for best storytelling with data visualization.