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Project Tracking a Record Run Throughout the Season
At the beginning of the season, it looked like Dallas Cowboys running back DeMarco Murray might break a record this season. John Hancock explains the interactive the Dallas Morning News put together to track Murray’s progress.
Project Stealing the NPR App Template for Fun and (Non-)Profit
- By Kaeti Hinck, Denise Malan, Ryan Nagle, Adam Schweigert
- Kaeti Hinck, Denise Malan, Ryan Nagle, Adam Schweigert
- INN
This month, just in time for the election, our team at the Investigative News Network (INN) launched Power Players—a state-by-state exploration of campaign finance and top political donors across the country. Here’s how we used NPR’s App Template to make it work.
Project Introducing Pulp and Pulp Press
Al Jazeera America’s Michael Keller explains how his team designed and built its first piece of comics journalism.
Project The Guardian Launches an Open Redesign for US Readers
The new site is responsive, speedy, and fully backed by new tools for journalists. We spoke with the project’s leaders about their experience, the new features, and what they have planned for the future.
Project The Case for Flat Files in Big Data Projects
Time’s Chris Wilson and Pratheek Rebala open up the enormous Open Payments dataset from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services using flat files and Ajax.
Project Package Data Like Software, and the Stories Will Flow Like Wine
The California Civic Data Coalition issues a challenge.
Project Introducing the California Civic Data Coalition
Launching with two new Django applications ready made to make California campaign finance data easier to access.
Project Video Synchronization for Collective Viewing
- By Brian Chirls
POV’s Brian Chirls on why video sync is a giant pain and how to make it work.
Project Empire: Lessons from Pushing the Boundaries of Web Video
Brian Chirls introduces an ambitious video framework for a challenging interactive documentary.
Project From the BBC News Labs: Datastringer
Basile Simon walks through the process of building a new tool that aims to help reporters cover beats, and that was prompted by work by Knight-Mozilla Fellows and a presentation at Hacks/Hackers London.
Project Comparing the Net Cost of College
The Chronicle of Higher Education set out to compare net cost of colleges and found an unexpected discrepancy. The team describes the piece they created to help explain the difficulty in comparing net costs.
Project When the News Calls for Raw Data
- By Tom Giratikanon, Erin Kissane, Jeremy Singer-Vine
- Tom Giratikanon, Alicia Parlapiano, Jeremy Singer-Vine, Jeremy White
- BuzzFeed, The New York Times
We spoke with the NYT and BuzzFeed about recent data postings prompted by the news from Ferguson, MO.
Project How (and Why) We Made Twitter Reverb
- By Simon Rogers
- Emma Alterman, Scott Benish, James Buckhouse, Dino Citraro, Brett Johnson, Kim Rees, Simon Rogers, Earl Swigert
- Periscopic, Twitter
Twitter’s Simon Rogers introduces Reverb and walks through his team’s design and development work with Periscopic.
Project Announcing Raster Support for Simple Tiles
Live from SRCCON an update you want to know about.
Project How We Made “Disappearing Rio Grande”
Last December, Colin McDonald pitched an opportunity for The Texas Tribune to partner on an ambitious project–he kayaks, canoes, and walks the Rio Grande’s entire 1,900-mile course, and we create a platform that makes it possible for him and his team to publish their reports on the journey. After a very successful Kickstarter campaign, the Disappearing Rio Grande project was born.
Project Planting the Next Crop of Newsroom Coders
- By Erin Kissane
We are exactly one month away from the August 16th deadline for applying for the 2015 Knight-Mozilla Fellowships, and this is the perfect time for you—the people actively wrangling data, building news apps, and designing interactives in newsrooms—to help chase amazing candidates toward the Fellowship application. We’ve assembled a one-stop shop of your arguments for joining development teams in news organizations, along with some of our former Fellows’ experiences and exhortations to future candidates.
Project All About the WSJ’s Penalty Kick Interactive
In the days before the World Cup’s knockout stages, with their potential for games to end in shootout finishes, The Wall Street Journal unveiled an app that visualized the tendencies of the top penalty kicks takers on the teams advancing in the tournament. Chris Canipe, senior news apps developer on the Wall Street Journal’s interactive graphics desk, talked with me about the thinking behind the project and how he and his colleagues put it together. What follows are edited excerpts from our conversation.
Project The NYT’s Detroit Foreclosure Interactive
Last week, the New York Times published an interactive photo-mosaic of 43,634 Detroit properties at serious risk of foreclosure. As you scroll down the page, viewing neighborhood after neighborhood, the number of properties and the total amount owed on them adds up at the top of the page. We contacted Matthew Bloch and Haeyoun Park at the Times to ask about the making of the interactive and the design choices they made along the way.
Project Mandy Brown and Trei Brundrett on Vox Product
On Tuesday, Vox Media announced that it was acquiring the technology and co-founding team of the late and much-missed collaborative writing tool Editorially. We chatted with Editorially’s Mandy Brown and Vox Media’s Trei Brundrett about the team’s next steps, the probability of open sourcing more code, and the internal Vox hack week going on at this very moment.
Project 3D Printing/Printed Explainer at the WSJ
- By Jonathan Keegan
- Paul Antonson, Megan Douglass, Jonathan Keegan, Roger Kenny, Lakshmi Ketineni, Mike Sudal
- The Wall Street Journal
Mini hit the web, and it reached newsstands today. It was accompanied by an explainer video that demystifies 3D printing tech, and a downloadable, printable 3D model of a sales growth chart from the review itself. The combination of hardware and data was irresistable, so we chatted with Jon Keegan about the project’s origins and their physical-digital plans for future features.
