Project How We Made the 3D Tour de France Interactive
Our Tour de France 3D interactive brought users right into one of the steepest, toughest, most iconic stages of the race, using WebGL.
Tool Building on Data Viz for All
- By Julia Smith
- Eric Sagara, Julia Smith, Aaron Williams, Youyou Zhou
- The Center for Investigative Reporting
Helping newsrooms improve interactive graphics and data visualizations by making them more accessible to all users.
Project From the BBC News Labs: Datastringer
Basile Simon walks through the process of building a new tool that aims to help reporters cover beats, and that was prompted by work by Knight-Mozilla Fellows and a presentation at Hacks/Hackers London.
Interview Forking Popcorn for a Journalist Audience
- By Joe Flowers, Adam Martin, Erika Owens, Brian Williamson
- Joe Flowers, Adam Martin, Brian Williamson
- Broadcasting Board of Governors
At the Mozilla Festival last fall, a team from the Broadcasting Board of Governors launched KettleCorn, their fork of the Mozilla video-editing tool Popcorn.
Tool Mapping Made Simple, Now with Bonus UI
Introducing the double-whammy of Simple Map D3 and Tulip, a new mapping app from MinnPost.
Tool Introducing Ractive.js
Ractive.js is a new JavaScript library for making interactives and news apps. Tl;dr: Ractive.js will make your life easier! Check out the examples and tutorials. (But really, you probably want to read this first.)
Roundup Event Roundup, June 10
- By Erika Owens
DataBootCamp in Bolivia this week and municipal data hacking in Johannesburg on Saturday.
Project Creating an API of Veterans Affairs’ data
- By Cole Goins, Erika Owens, Shane Shifflett
- Cole Goins, Shane Shifflett
- The Center for Investigative Reporting
The Center for Investigative Reporting recently released an API of data from the US Department of Veterans Affairs, which it compiled in reporting on a backlog of disability claims.
Event Twitter’s Miguel Rios on Choosing Viz Methods
In our second dispatch from OpenVis Conf, Twitter's Miguel Rios digs into four major options for displaying visualizations on the web.
Roundup Event Roundup, May 20
- By Erika Owens
The final Editors’ Lab before the Global Editors Network Conference in June and data hacking in Spain this weekend.
Roundup Event Roundup, Apr 29
- By Erika Owens
Harvesting data in Belgium and talking transparency in DC this weekend. Plus, session suggestions for the Online News Association conference due Tuesday.
Roundup Event Roundup, Apr 8
- By Erika Owens
Today, John Keefe will teach data visualization basics in New Jersey. This week, the Global Editors Network Editors’ Lab heads to Cairo.
Project Launching the Minnesota Legislative Bill Tracker
- By Beth Hawkins, Kaeti Hinck, Tom Nehil, James Nord, Erika Owens, Alan Palazzolo
- Beth Hawkins, Kaeti Hinck, Tom Nehil, James Nord, Alan Palazzolo
- MinnPost
This week, MinnPost launched an effort to track legislation in Minnesota throughout the 2013 session.
Project Introducing Tabula
- By Manuel Aristarán, Mike Tigas
- Manuel Aristarán, Jeremy B. Merrill, Mike Tigas
- OpenNews, ProPublica
A new PDF data extraction tool conceived by Manuel Aristarán and built out in a collaboration between Aristarán, who is a Knight-Mozilla Fellow at La Nación, and Mike Tigas, Fellow at ProPublica, and ProPublica’s Jeremy B. Merrill.
Learning How the Data Sausage Gets Made
Jacob Harris explains the perils of making government food safety data usable for journalistic research.
Learning Sane Data Updates Are Harder than You Think
First in a three-part series by Adrian Holovaty about hairy data-parsing problems from a journalist’s perspective
Interview Meet Gustavo Faleiros
The second in a series of interviews with Knight International Journalism Fellows.
Roundup Event Roundup, Feb 19
- By Erika Owens
Saturday is International Open Data Day, and there may be a hack event near year.
Interview For Journalism: How it Started, Where it’s Going
- By Erin Kissane, Dave Stanton
- Jeremy Bowers, Chase Davis, Christopher Groskopf, Jeff Larson, Jacqui Maher, Michelle Minkoff, Ryan Pitts, Ken Schwencke, Dave Stanton, Mike Tigas
The For Journalism project aims to create nine brand-new courses for journalists who want to learn how to design and build news applications, and to offer them to individuals and institutions in the fall of 2013.
Roundup Event Roundup, Feb 11
- By Erika Owens
Hacks/Hackers meet this week in Milano and Birmingham. Plus, two news-related iconathons this month.
