Project Replaying A Night in the Life of a Cabbie
At The Boston Globe, I was charged with helping readers understand that struggle—to experience a night in the life of a cab driver—using a digital interactive. The result was published alongside an amazing article by the Globe’s resident journalist-sportswriter-cabbie, Bob Hohler.
Roundup Event Roundup, Apr 1
- By Erika Owens
Applications open this week for Code with me: Portland. Plus, National Conference for Media Reform this weekend.
Roundup Event Roundup, Mar 25
- By Erika Owens
Hacks/Hackers meetups in Rochester, Berlin, and Boston this week. Plus, today is the last day to apply for Grants for Innovation in Development Reporting.
Interview Meet Gustavo Faleiros
The second in a series of interviews with Knight International Journalism Fellows.
Interview Meet Mariana Santos
The first in a series of interviews with Knight International Journalism Fellows.
Project Chris Amico on the View Source Podcast
On the most recent episode of Dave Stanton’s View Source podcast, Chris Amico walks through the process of making Your Warming World.
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.
Roundup Event Roundup, Jan 22
- By Erika Owens
Meetups in Philadelphia, New York, and Madrid on Thursday and learning and hacking this weekend.
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.
Roundup Event Roundup, Dec 10
- By Erika Owens
The year’s winding down, but there’s at least one more hackathon.
Project Spokesman-Review Holiday Lights Map
Ryan Pitts breaks down the recipe for a holiday lights map app, with special nods to artisanal admin interfaces and full-screen BoyerMaps.
Project The Making of ProPublica’s Pipeline Safety Feature
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.
Roundup Event Roundup, Nov 19
- By Erika Owens
More hacking in London this weekend, and looking ahead: multi-city international hackathons next weekend and a hackathon focused on immigration in early December. Plus, trainings, meetups, and a fellowship deadline.
Project Mother Jones’ Voter Suppression Map
How the Mother Jones nerd desk whipped up a multi-layered map of verified incidents of voter suppression for the 2012 US elections.
Event Election Hacking at MozFest
- By Erin Kissane
- Bloomberg, Knight Lab, NPR, OpenNews, ProPublica, Sourcefabric, The Chicago Tribune, The Financial Times, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Spokesman-Review, The Times and Sunday Times, Ushahidi
At MozFest today in London, OpenNews led a 70-person session on election-related news apps and tools.
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 WYNC & KPCC’s California Elections Map
- By John Keefe
- Kim Bui, Adam DePrince, Schuyler Duveen, John Keefe, Louise Ma, Glenn Mohre
- KPCC, OpenNews, WNYC
How the WNYC data team turned California’s live elections data into an embeddable map based on a
Project Introducing Opened Captions
Opened Captions makes it easy to create web applications and visualizations that react the second words are spoken on live television.
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.
