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  1. Project Diary: How we made the Wage Theft Monitor

    By Max Siegelbaum

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    How Documented fought for data about businesses that have stolen from their workers, and what you need to know to do this kind of project in your state.

  2. How We Visualized the Challenges and Limitations Facing Autonomous Cars

    By Chris Alcantara, Youjin Shin, and Aaron Steckelberg

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    How we reported and developed our own visual story to show the public how an autonomous car sees, thinks, and operates—in sometimes unexpected ways.

  3. Things You Made, Sept 13

    By Lindsay Muscato

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    Our regular biweekly roundup.

  4. How We Made a Human-Centered Homicide Report

    By Lindsay Muscato

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    A Q&A; with the team behind Houston’s first homicide report, a cross-team collaboration that altered how different areas of the newsroom worked together.

  5. How We Made the Force Report Database

    By Carla Astudillo and Erin Petenko

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    How we made a database of every time N.J. cops punched, kicked, or used other force over a five-year period, and a series of stories to go with it.

  6. New Open Source Tools for Journalism Educators

    By Allison Lichter Joseph

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    Tools and resources, including a cool deck of cards, to teach journalism or just get yourself out of a rut.

  7. Mapping the Fiery Chaos of the 1968 Riots

    By Armand Emamdjomeh, Danielle Rindler, and Lauren Tierney

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    A full walkthrough of the Washington Post’s mapping project involving D.C.’s 1968 riots.

  8. How We Made “Billions of Birds Migrate”

    By Brian Jacobs

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    National Geographic’s enormous bird migration interactive and how it came to be.

  9. How We Made “Sending Even More Immigrants to Prison”

    By Yolanda Martinez

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    A data project that shows how the U.S. government has prioritized immigration deterrence and criminalization.

  10. How We Made the New Big Mac Index Interactive

    By Martín González, Evan Hensleigh, Matt McLean, Marie Segger, and Alex Selby-Boothroyd

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    A walkthrough of making an iconic index new again.

  11. How We Made the “Bundyville” Podcast & Series

    By Leah Sottile

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    The long road to a series and a podcast, as a solo journalist.

  12. How We Made Our “Crossing Divides” News Game

    By Luke Hutton, Fionntán O’Donnell, Pietro Passarelli, and Alli Shultes

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    How we made a chat-based game that aimed to bridge social divisions.

  13. How We Made Unequal Justice

    By Ann Choi, Erin Geismar, James Stewart, and Will Welch

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    Our two-part series that painted a picture of disparate justice systems on Long Island depending on race or ethnicity.

  14. How We Made “The Melting of Antarctica”

    By Lauren Tierney

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    For over 120 years, National Geographic magazine has mapped Antarctica, and continues to visually illustrate the complex processes that occur on this remote continent. The tradition continues with “The Melting of Antarctica,” published in the July 2017 issue, highlighting the effect that climate change is having on the continent.

  15. Our Font Is Made of People

    By Alberto Cairo and Scott Klein

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    All about ProPublica’s new Wee People font of human silhouettes, free for all to use.

  16. How We Made Our School Segregation Interactive

    By Alvin Chang and Erin Kissane

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    We really appreciated Vox’s recent illustrated interactive on school segregation and gerrymandering—particularly because its creator, Alvin Chang, worked alongside Tomas Monarrez, a UC Berkeley economics PhD candidate.

  17. How We Made “The Year in Push Alerts”

    By Holly Allen, Laura Bennett, and Andrew Kahn

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    A few weeks ago, Slate published a year-in-push-alerts feature that captured much of the sense of escalating anxiety and unreality produced by the last year in breaking news.

  18. How We Made “The Water Drain”

    By Lindsay Muscato and Cecilia Reyes

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    To piece together the bigger picture of water usage and how much people pay, the Tribune team used a variety of data sources, including their own survey. They found wide disparities in what residents were paying for water, with the poorest communities paying the most.

  19. Five Years, What a Surprise

    By Erin Kissane

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    How we made Source, and why, and what happened then.

  20. Visualizing Mass Shootings

    By Erin Kissane and Lindsay Muscato

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    Over the past two years or so, we’ve kept tabs on our community’s work around guns in America. We’ve seen a wealth of data visualizations and a huge breadth of interactive projects that bring clarity to stories of gun violence and mass shootings—projects often assembled quickly amidst the chaos of breaking news.

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