Tool security DeadDrop sources Strongbox Strongbox Reactions, Part II

• By Jacob Harris, Erin Kissane, Jonathan Stray, Mike Tigas
• Jacob Harris, Jonathan Stray, Mike Tigas

We asked for your thoughts on Strongbox, the New Yorker’s new implementation of DeadDrop. Our first wave of responses includes the New York Times’ Jacob Harris, the Overview Project’s Jonathan Stray, and Mike Tigas, OpenNews Fellow at ProPublica.

Project geocoding Ruby on Rails mapping The Making of ProPublica’s Pipeline Safety Feature

• By Lena Groeger, Erin Kissane
• Lena Groeger
• ProPublica

Last week, ProPublica released an explainer on fires, chemical spills, explosions, and other incidents related to US oil and gas pipelines, along with an interactive map and a series of charts and tables. Reporter-designer-developer Lena Groeger explains how the project came about, what challenges she encountered, and how she assembled the final presentation.

Project Tastypie pandas Django dataviz 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.

Project NodeJS opennews Introducing Opened Captions

• By Dan Schultz
• Dan Schultz
• OpenNews

Opened Captions makes it easy to create web applications and visualizations that react the second words are spoken on live television.