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

• By Peter Aldhous, Chris Amico, Erin Kissane
• Peter Aldhous, Chris Amico
• New Scientist

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 art direction CMS How We Made “For Amusement Only”

• By Trei Brundrett, Billy Disney, Laura June, Scott Kellum, Erika Owens
• Trei Brundrett, Billy Disney, Laura June, Scott Kellum
• The Verge

In a Q&A with Source’s Erika Owens, the team behind For Amusement Only explains how it was done.

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

• By Ivar Vong
• The Daily Emerald

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

Project jPlayer jQuery HTML5 video animation Underscore How We Made Snow Fall

• By Steve Duenes, Erin Kissane, Andrew Kueneman, Jacky Myint, Graham Roberts, Catherine Spangler
• John Branch, Steve Duenes, Hannah Fairfield, Ruth Fremson, Wayne Kamidoi, Andrew Kueneman, Sam Manchester, Alan McLean, Jacky Myint, Graham Roberts, Catherine Spangler, Joe Ward, Jeremy White, Josh Williams
• The New York Times

Reporters, designers, developers, and editors who worked on the NYT’s Snow Fall explain how they pulled it off.

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

• By Jeff Larson, Erika Owens
• Lena Groeger, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Jeff Larson, Al Shaw
• ProPublica

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

• By Ryan Pitts
• Gina Boysun, Ryan Pitts, Mike Tigas
• The Spokesman-Review

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

• By Jacob Harris
• Brian Hamman, Jacob Harris, Jacqui Maher, Michael Strickland, Derek Willis
• The New York Times

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

• By Alyson Hurt
• Jeremy Bowers, Brian Boyer, Danny DeBelius, Tyler Fisher, Jeremy Gilbert, Christopher Groskopf, Alyson Hurt
• NPR

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

• By Lena Groeger, Erin Kissane
• Lena Groeger
• ProPublica

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

• By Tasneem Raja
• Gavin Aronsen, Ben Breedlove, Mark Follman, Jaeah Lee, Tasneem Raja
• Mother Jones

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

• By Mike Bostock
• Mike Bostock, Shan Carter
• The New York Times

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

• By Simon Rogers
• Simon Rogers
• The Guardian

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

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

• By John Keefe
• Kim Bui, Adam DePrince, Schuyler Duveen, John Keefe, Louise Ma, Glenn Mohre
• KPCC, OpenNews, WNYC

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

• By Timothy C. Barmann
• Timothy C. Barmann
• Providence Journal

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

• By Kat Downs, Serdar Tumgoren
• Kat Downs, Dan Hill, Ted Mellnik, Andrew Metcalf, Cory O’Brien, Cheryl W. Thompson, Serdar Tumgoren
• The Washington Post

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

• By Erin Kissane, Al Shaw
• Scott Klein, Jeremy B. Merrill, Al Shaw, Amanda Zamora
• ProPublica

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

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