Project Draw Your Own Election Adventure
- By Juan Elosua
- Cristian Bertelegni, Gastón de la Llana, Juan Elosua, Pablo Loscri, Mariana Trigo Viera
- La Nación
At La Nación, we have been working on real-time coverage of Buenos Aires elections, as well as a more detailed view results once we get data for each polling station. In this post, we’ll to explain our mapping-app innovation that allows readers to choose what parts of the city they are interested in by drawing shapes over a basemap, and then returns custom results for their selected area.
Project How We Made Losing Ground
How we tracked down, processed, filtered, revisualized, mashed up, and otherwise handled a boatload of disparate imagery to map changes in the Louisiana coastline backward and forward in time.
Project Introducing Wherewolf
Last week, as part of the OpenNews post-election Code Convening, Jenny Ye and Noah Veltman put the finishing touches on Wherewolf, a JavaScript library that lets you run a boundary service in a browser.
How-to Twitter Mapping: Foundations
Twitter’s data editor lays out the major challenges and opportunities that arise when you set out to map tweets.
How-to Animating Maps with D3 and TopoJSON
An exploration of an easy way to animate paths in SVG maps.
Project Finding Evidence of Climate Change in a Billion Rows of Data
Seeking to contribute to the climate change conversation, the team at Enigma started to brainstorm ways we could produce a data-driven story on how climate change has played out in the United States. Browsing through NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center, we discovered the Global Historical Climatology Network which collects, aggregates, and standardizes daily weather information from more than 90,000 weather stations, dating as far back as 1800. While we come across many incredible public datasets in our work at Enigma, this one immediately stood out for its remarkable combination of geographic granularity and temporal breadth
Project Introducing Landline and Stateline
Today we’re releasing code to make it easier for newsrooms to produce maps quickly. Landline is an open source JavaScript library for turning GeoJSON data into browser-based SVG maps. It comes with Stateline, which builds on Landline to create U.S. state and county choropleth maps with very little code out-of-the-box.
Project A Map That Wasn’t a Map
If you want to show information with a geographical component, you should start with a map, right? Not so fast, writes Tasneem Raja. Questioning your assumptions can help you make something much more effective.
Learning Choosing the Right Map Projection
Michael Corey’s guide to smashing the earth for fun and profit
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.
Tool The Code Behind AJAM’s Displaced Syrians App
Al Jazeera America’s Michael Keller introduces the three new open source libraries behind AJA’s displaced Syrians interactive app.
Roundup US Elections Roundup, November 2013
A light round of elections were held this week in the US, giving news developers an opportunity to outdo their usual coverage. We’ve rounded up a few highlights.
Project Let research apps, MVC JavaScript, and APIs work for you
- By Agustin Armendariz, Michael Corey, Aaron Williams
- Agustin Armendariz, Michael Corey, Aaron Williams
- The Center for Investigative Reporting
The Center for Investigative Reporting continues their work visualizing Department of Veterans Affairs’ data. Here, they discuss their development process.
Tool Mapping Made Simple, Now with Bonus UI
Introducing the double-whammy of Simple Map D3 and Tulip, a new mapping app from MinnPost.
Project Fast Hacks: Harnessing Google tools for crowdsourced mapping
On his second day at KPCC, Chris Keller and team wanted to build a crowdsourced map of experiences at the polls. Here’s how they did it and what they learned for the next election day.
Project Meet Poderopedia Plug & Play
Let’s say you would like to map politicians and their connections, build a semantic database of companies and top executives in a specific industry, or create a visualization of lobbyists and their clients. With Poderopedia’s free, open source Plug & Play Platform, you can.
Learning Men’s NCAA Interactive: Redesigning Bracket Slightly Easier than Winning It
Sean McDade reinvents the wheel with the Associated Press Final Four Interactive.
Tool Strongbox Reactions, Part II
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 Mapping the History of Street Names
OpenNews Fellow Noah Veltman breaks down the design and code decisions behind his History of SF Place Names map.
Learning Finding Stories in the Structure of Data
Matt Waite sees structure in unstructured data, and you should too.
