Tool All About Transcribable
Yesterday, ProPublica released Transcribable, a new open source tool that makes orderly crowdsourced transcription available to any organization that uses Ruby on Rails. ProPublica’s Al Shaw introduced the project to the public in a post on ProPublica’s Nerd Blog yesterday and here answers all our questions about the project.
Interview Meet Mariano Blejman
In the third of our Knight International Journalism Fellow profiles, Mariano Blejman talks about his upcoming projects.
Project The New York Times’ Election Results Loader
- By Jacob Harris
- Brian Hamman, Jacob Harris, Jacqui Maher, Michael Strickland, Derek Willis
- The New York Times
Jacob Harris breaks down the data, the code choices, and the rationales behind the NYT’s results loader for the US 2012 elections.
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.
Project SchoolBook
- By Tyson Evans
- Jeremy Ashkenas, Kim Bost, Ahn Dang, Tyson Evans, Robert Gebeloff, Mary Ann Giordano, Brian Hamman, Jacqui Maher
- The New York Times, WNYC
The New York Times and WNYC have joined forces on a new site dedicated to news, data and conversation about schools in New York City. SchoolBook is now the main place to find coverage of schools in New York by The Times and WNYC. SchoolBook’s home page will mix those news, feature and multimedia stories with essays by members of the education community, as well as photos, videos, queries, comments and more.
