Project Meet Bloomberg’s Dataview
One of our most recent works, “How Americans Die,” is an instance of what we call a “dataview.” The impetus behind dataview was a hope to provide clear and concise storytelling, while giving the supporting data more prominence and explorability.
Project How We Made “Behind the Bloodshed”
- By Anthony DeBarros, Destin Frasier, Erin Kissane, Juan Thomassie
- Anthony DeBarros, Destin Frasier, Jerry Mosemak, Juan Thomassie
- Gannett Digital, USA Today
“Behind the Bloodshed: The Untold Story of America’s Mass Killings,” is a collaboration between the database team at USA Today and Gannett Digital’s interactive applications and design teams. We chatted with Anthony DeBarros of Gannett Digital, with input from colleagues Juan Thomassie and Destin Frasier, on how the project came together.
Project How We Made “NSA Files: Decoded”
- By Feilding Cage, Gabriel Dance
- Greg Chen, Gabriel Dance, Kenan Davis, Ewan MacAskill, Nadja Popovich, Kenton Powell, Bob Sacha, Ruth Spencer, Lisa van Gelder
- The Guardian
The Guardian’s Gabriel Dance and Feilding Cage break down their process, from storyboards and video production to major design changes and development challenges.
Project How We Made “Your Warming World”
New Scientist’s Peter Aldhous and NPR’s Chris Amico break down the data, mapping, and interface details of their collaboration on Your Warming World.
Project How We Made “For Amusement Only”
- By Trei Brundrett, Billy Disney, Laura June, Scott Kellum, Erika Owens
- Trei Brundrett, Billy Disney, Laura June, Scott Kellum
- The Verge
In a Q&A with Source’s Erika Owens, the team behind For Amusement Only explains how it was done.
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.
Project How We Made Snow Fall
- By Steve Duenes, Erin Kissane, Andrew Kueneman, Jacky Myint, Graham Roberts, Catherine Spangler
- John Branch, Steve Duenes, Hannah Fairfield, Ruth Fremson, Wayne Kamidoi, Andrew Kueneman, Sam Manchester, Alan McLean, Jacky Myint, Graham Roberts, Catherine Spangler, Joe Ward, Jeremy White, Josh Williams
- The New York Times
Reporters, designers, developers, and editors who worked on the NYT’s Snow Fall explain how they pulled it off.
Project Anatomy of the “Living Apart” map
Last month, ProPublica launched the Living Apart series with an investigation into the Fair Housing Act of 1968 and an interactive map showing the migration of African Americans from 1890-2010.
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.
Project Florida’s Stand Your Ground Law
We assembled a database of stand your ground cases in Florida to encourage people to explore the cases to see how the law was being applied. We did this because no government entity was tracking such cases.
