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Project jQuery TileMill mapping climate change Leaflet Panoply NetCDF MapBox Highcharts Backbone How We Made “Your Warming World”

How We Made "Your Warming World"

New Scientist’s Peter Aldhous and NPR’s Chris Amico break down the data, mapping, and interface details of their collaboration on Your Warming World.

Project second screen chat socket.io Tabletop Instagram Heroku Twitter sports Fast Hacks: GameDay Live

Fast Hacks: GameDay Live

The Daily Emerald’s Ivar Vong breaks down a homepage takeover experiment.

Project Simple Tiles census mapping simple tiles Anatomy of the “Living Apart” map

Anatomy of the "Living Apart" map

Last month, ProPublica launched the Living Apart series with an investigation into the Fair Housing Act of 1968 and an interactive map showing the migration of African Americans from 1890-2010.

Project mapping Django Spokesman-Review Holiday Lights Map

Spokesman-Review Holiday Lights Map

Ryan Pitts breaks down the recipe for a holiday lights map app, with special nods to artisanal admin interfaces and full-screen BoyerMaps.

Project APIs Ruby on Rails JSON elections The New York Times’ Election Results Loader

The New York Times' Election Results Loader

Jacob Harris breaks down the data, the code choices, and the rationales behind the NYT’s results loader for the US 2012 elections.

Project How NPR Designed Their Live Elections News App

How NPR Designed Their Live Elections News App

Alyson Hurt explains how the NPR apps team created, tested, and built its Swing State Scorecard and covered results on Election Night.

Project geocoding Ruby on Rails mapping The Making of ProPublica’s Pipeline Safety Feature

The Making of ProPublica's Pipeline Safety Feature

Last week, ProPublica released an explainer on fires, chemical spills, explosions, and other incidents related to US oil and gas pipelines, along with an interactive map and a series of charts and tables. Reporter-designer-developer Lena Groeger explains how the project came about, what challenges she encountered, and how she assembled the final presentation.

Project TileMill mapping Google Docs MapBox elections Mother Jones’ Voter Suppression Map

Mother Jones' Voter Suppression Map

How the Mother Jones nerd desk whipped up a multi-layered map of verified incidents of voter suppression for the 2012 US elections.

Project dataviz D3 elections The NYT’s Visual Election Outcome Explorer

The NYT's Visual Election Outcome Explorer

Mike Bostock explains how he and Shan Carter created the 512 Paths interactive feature, from early sketches to complete implementation.

Project mapping disasters The Guardian’s Sandy Incidents Map

The Guardian's Sandy Incidents Map

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

Project mapping JSON elections WYNC & KPCC’s California Elections Map

WYNC & KPCC's California Elections Map

How the WNYC data team turned California’s live elections data into an embeddable map based on a

Project records public Rhode Island General Assembly Attendance Data

Rhode Island General Assembly Attendance Data

From paper and PDF records to live text to database to interactive tool, step by step.

Project Tastypie pandas Django dataviz Homicides in the District

Homicides in the District

How the Washington Post’s development team cleaned the data and built an app to support a 15-month investigation into DC homicide cases.

Project NodeJS opennews Introducing Opened Captions

Opened Captions makes it easy to create web applications and visualizations that react the second words are spoken on live television.

Project campaign finance data analysis APIs Free the Files API + Q&A with Al Shaw

Free the Files API + Q&A with Al Shaw

ProPublica’s interactive data-analysis project gets an API, and Al Shaw answers our development questions about the making of Free the Files.

Project QGIS TileMill R mapping Stop & Frisk: Guns

A mapping project from WNYC that displays NYPD stop-and-frisks by block and locations where the police discovered guns during such stops.

Project dataviz Miso Project

Miso is an open source toolkit designed to expedite the creation of high-quality interactive storytelling and data visualisation content.

Project finance campaign PAC Track

Expenditure tracking for super PACs during the 2012 election campaign, showing filings and contributor data.

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