Learning

1. Human-Assisted Reporting Gets the Story

   By Tyler Dukes

   Posted on February 27, 2014

   Tyler Dukes on combining the power of data-sorting tools with old-fashioned digging.

2. 

   Making Remote Work Work

   By Christopher Groskopf

   Posted on February 13, 2014

   Christopher Groskopf’s tricks for going to the office without going to the office.

3. 

   The Evolution of News Tech Teams

   By Pablo Mercado

   Posted on February 6, 2014

   Vox Media’s VP of technology breaks down the hard and frequently messy lessons his organization has learned about clearing the way for successful tech collaboration in newsrooms.

4. How to Make a News App in Two Days

   By Al Shaw

   Posted on January 31, 2014

   As part of the orientation week for the 2014 class of Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Fellows, fellow nerd-cuber Mike Tigas and I led a hackathon at Mozilla’s headquarters in San Francisco…

5. 

   How and Why Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration Rocks

   By Wes Lindamood

   Posted on January 2, 2014

   Wes Lindamood explains the magic of working together from the start with a UX-driven process

6. 

   Choosing the Right Map Projection

   By Michael Corey

   Posted on December 20, 2013

   Michael Corey’s guide to smashing the earth for fun and profit

7. 

   Making Good News Judgments

   By Shane Shifflett

   Posted on December 5, 2013

   Shane Shifflett on the fine art of news judgment and why it’s as important for data journalists as ace coding skills.

8. 

   Open Your Data

   By Waldo Jaquith

   Posted on November 21, 2013

   Waldo Jaquith on the whys and wherefores of making it open

9. 

   And Remember, this Is for Posterity

   By Jacob Harris

   Posted on November 14, 2013

   Jacob Harris on the hows and whys of designing interactives to survive the future.

10. 

    Building News Apps on a Shoestring

    By Alan Palazzolo

    Posted on October 31, 2013

    Alan Palazzolo on how the MinnPost team rocks it without a big budget

11. 

    Well Hello, Census

    By Joe Germuska

    Posted on October 17, 2013

    Joe Germuska on the iterative, human-centered process that’s made the new Census Reporter project especially awesome.

12. 

    Using Big Data to Ask Big Questions

    By Chase Davis

    Posted on October 4, 2013

    Chase Davis lays down some data science upon us to change how you think about the questions you’re asking of your data

13. 

    The Times Regrets the Programmer Error

    By Jacob Harris

    Posted on September 19, 2013

    Jake Harris opens a serious barrel of monkeys about when and how to issue corrections for data journalism.

14. 

    Kill All Your Darlings

    By Matt Waite

    Posted on September 12, 2013

    Matt Waite on what to do when things don’t work out like you planned.

15. 

    People Power Prevails!

    By John Keefe

    Posted on September 5, 2013

    John Keefe on tracking the cicada pestilence with open source sensor journalism and crowdsourced data collection

16. 

    Telling Your Boss “No”

    By Matt Waite

    Posted on August 22, 2013

    Matt Waite says just because you can make it doesn’t mean you should

17. 

    Sane Data Updates Are Harder than You Think: Part 3

    By Adrian Holovaty

    Posted on August 15, 2013

    Third in a three-part series by Adrian Holovaty about hairy data-parsing problems from a journalist’s perspective

18. 

    They Are Tweet Zombies!! They Are Followers!!

    By Jacob Harris

    Posted on August 8, 2013

    Jake Harris on how dead accounts and spambots can mess with your Twitter data mojo

19. 

    Know Your Stats

    By Dave Stanton

    Posted on July 25, 2013

    Read Dave Stanton’s essential primer on basic statistical principles and you won’t get caught with your data pants down.

20. 

    Drawing Conclusions from Data

    By Jonathan Stray

    Posted on July 25, 2013

    In this OpenNews Learning special, Jonathan Stray presents an equation-free statistics talk on data and the shape of randomness.