Project social media Code Convening image tools Introducing Lunchbox

• By Tyler Fisher, Livia Labate
• Danny DeBelius, David Eads, Tyler Fisher, Alyson Hurt, Livia Labate
• NPR

At the OpenNews July 2015 Code Convening, the NPR Visuals Team built and released a desktop app for creating shareable images across social media platforms.

Event responsive viz OpenVisConf The Boston Globe’s Gabriel Florit on Responsive Visualizations

• By Erin Kissane
• Gabriel Florit

Gabriel Florit creates data visualizations at the Boston Globe, and was at OpenVis Conf to talk about the surprising difficulties of bringing the principles of responsive design to data viz.

Project mapping disasters The Guardian’s Sandy Incidents Map

• By Simon Rogers
• Simon Rogers
• The Guardian

Simon Rogers on the rapid development of their verified Sandy events map and dataset.

Roundup mapping disasters 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.