Al’s work on Source

Code

1. Campaign Cash
2. Landline + Stateline
3. TimelineSetter
4. Transcribable

Projects

1. How We Made Losing Ground
2. Reporting from the Youngest Land on Earth
3. Announcing Raster Support for Simple Tiles
4. Introducing Landline and Stateline
5. How to Make a News App in Two Days
6. Lessons from the ProPublica/OpenNews Popup News Apps Team
7. All About Transcribable
8. Creating Games for Journalism
9. How We Made It: Your Hospital May Be Hazardous To Your Health
10. Anatomy of the “Living Apart” map
11. Free the Files API + Q&A with Al Shaw
12. PAC Track

Articles by Al

1. 

   Reporting from the Youngest Land on Earth

   How We Got Aerial Photographs for Our Project on Louisiana’s Effort to Save Its Southeastern Coast

   Posted on December 8, 2014

   How ProPublica and The Lens got the aerial photos they needed to produce Losing Ground.

2. 

   Introducing Landline and Stateline

   Speedier mapmaking can be yours with ProPublica’s new GeoJSON-to-SVG libraries

   Posted on April 15, 2014

   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.

3. How to Make a News App in Two Days

   As Told by Six People Who Tried It for the First Time

   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…

4. 

   2012 in Review: Al Shaw

   Smart apps, great interaction choices, real-world effects

   Posted on December 21, 2012

   ProPublica’s Al Shaw breaks down five outstanding news apps and interactive design choices from 2012, and one game-changer from 2011.

5. 

   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

   Posted on October 16, 2012

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

6. PAC Track

   What and Where Are the Super PACs Spending?

   Posted on July 8, 2012

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