Articles tagged: ruby

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   Why We Built The Record

   By Andy Rossback and Ivar Vong

   Posted on April 7, 2016

   Introducing The Record, the Marshall Project’s compendium of reporter-curated criminal justice links.

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   A Bot to Find the Source of Serendipity

   By Jacqui Maher

   Posted on March 26, 2014

   Just before Thanksgiving last year, a new novelty Twitter account gained notice in our newsroom. @NYTMinusContext, promising “All Tweets Verbatim From New York Times Content. Not Affiliated with New York Times.” tweeted fragments from Times articles that you might not think twice about while reading in article format. Isolated, though, these phrases can be absurd, surprising, and delightful.

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   Model Analysis

   By Erik Hinton

   Posted on September 17, 2013

   The New York Times’ Erik Hinton breaks down a Fashion Week colorbar special feature with bonus fancy math.

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   All About Reporter

   By Erin Kissane and Jeremy Singer-Vine

   Posted on September 10, 2013

   The Wall Street Journal’s Jeremy Singer-Vine recently released Reporter, an open source tool that makes it easy to hide and reveal the code behind common forms of data visualization presented on the web. We spoke with him about the tool’s makeup, design goals, and future development plan.

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   Responsive CSS Testing Made Simple with the BBC’s Wraith

   By David Blooman, John Cleveley, Erin Kissane, and Simon Thulbourn

   Posted on August 9, 2013

   Last November, the BBC News team created a front-end regression tool that collects and diffs screenshots to automatically highlight discrepancies produced (intentionally or otherwise) by CSS changes. Last week, the team open-sourced Wraith. We spoke with David Blooman, who developed the tool last fall and worked with Simon Thulbourn to prepare it for public release.

6. Introducing Tabula

   By Manuel Aristarán and Mike Tigas

   Posted on April 3, 2013

   A new PDF data extraction tool conceived by Manuel Aristarán and built out in a collaboration between Aristarán, who is a Knight-Mozilla Fellow at La Nación, and Mike Tigas, Fellow at ProPublica, and ProPublica’s Jeremy B. Merrill.