How-to Animating Maps with D3 and TopoJSON
An exploration of an easy way to animate paths in SVG maps.
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.
Tool Introducing Ractive.js
Ractive.js is a new JavaScript library for making interactives and news apps. Tl;dr: Ractive.js will make your life easier! Check out the examples and tutorials. (But really, you probably want to read this first.)
Event Twitter’s Miguel Rios on Choosing Viz Methods
In our second dispatch from OpenVis Conf, Twitter's Miguel Rios digs into four major options for displaying visualizations on the web.
Learning Finding Stories in the Structure of Data
Matt Waite sees structure in unstructured data, and you should too.
Learning How the Data Sausage Gets Made
Jacob Harris explains the perils of making government food safety data usable for journalistic research.
