Roundtable A Conversation with Data Visualization Experts
Sha Hwang and I brought together a panel of four experts—Rachel Binx, Mike Bostock, Tom Carden, and Scott Murray—to talk about their processes last month at San Francisco’s General Assembly. Here’s what we learned.
Project Chase Davis on fec-standardizer
Chase Davis breaks down his fec-standardizer project and explains where it’s going next.
Roundup Event Roundup, Jan 22
- By Erika Owens
Meetups in Philadelphia, New York, and Madrid on Thursday and learning and hacking this weekend.
Roundup Event Roundup, Jan 14
- By Erika Owens
Lots of opportunities for learning: events in Philadelphia and Vienna as well as fellowship programs taking applications now.
Project Fast Hacks: GameDay Live
The Daily Emerald’s Ivar Vong breaks down a homepage takeover experiment.
Roundup Event Roundup, Jan 7
- By Erika Owens
New year and lots of event planning underway. Plus, we’re entering awards entry season: the IRE deadline is this Friday.
Roundup 2012 in Review: Ryan Pitts
- By Ryan Pitts
Our own Ryan Pitts on the tools that helped him do better work and the projects and sites that inspired him in 2012.
Roundup Event Roundup, Dec 17
- By Erika Owens
The last event roundup of the year. Why not spend break applying for some fellowships or awards competitions?
Roundup Event Roundup, Dec 10
- By Erika Owens
The year’s winding down, but there’s at least one more hackathon.
Roundup Event Roundup, Nov 26
- By Erika Owens
Knight Lab and local Hacks/Hackers meetups this week. Two multi-city, international hackathons this weekend as well as a Hurricane Sandy hackathon in New York.
Project The Guardian’s Sandy Incidents Map
Simon Rogers on the rapid development of their verified Sandy events map and dataset.
Roundup Superstorm Sandy: Code and Interactives
- By Erin Kissane
- Timothy C. Barmann, John Burn-Murdoch, Andrew Hill, John Keefe, Louise Ma, Steven Melendez, Simon Rogers
- Providence Journal, The Guardian, The New York Times, Vizzuality, WNYC
As superstorm Sandy approached the East Coast of the US, newsdev teams ranging from large to tiny created maps, charts, trackers, and tables about the storm’s path, expected effects, and civic responses.
Project Rhode Island General Assembly Attendance Data
From paper and PDF records to live text to database to interactive tool, step by step.
Roundup Event Roundup, Oct 22
- By Erika Owens
Upcoming events for news developers in London, Washington, DC, New York, Kuala Lumpur, and eight cities throughout South and Central America.
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 Jessica Lord on sheetsee.js
Jessica Lord breaks down the context and process behind sheetsee.js, a JavaScript mashup developed during her Code for America fellowship.
Project Stop & Frisk: Guns
A mapping project from WNYC that displays NYPD stop-and-frisks by block and locations where the police discovered guns during such stops.
Project Miso Project
Miso is an open source toolkit designed to expedite the creation of high-quality interactive storytelling and data visualisation content.
