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  1. 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.

  2. How We Mapped 1.3m Data Points Using Mapbox

    By David Blood and Ændrew Rininsland

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    Inside our totally complex cartographic endeavor to map broadband.

  3. 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.

  4. Diary of a Local Data Reporter

    By Rachel Alexander

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    A deep dive into the ethics and process behind an investigation into overdoses in Spokane, Washington.

  5. The Sound of Disparity

    By Jim Briggs and Sinduja Rangarajan

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    Inside Reveal’s incredible data sonification project, bringing Silicon Valley’s diversity problem to our ears.

  6. Things You Made, April 5

    By Lindsay Muscato

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    Our regular biweekly roundup of notable projects and OpenNews updates.

  7. How We Publish Live Chats with Slack

    By Andrew Briz

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    Creating a newsroom tool from scratch.

  8. How We Found New Patterns in LA’s Homeless Arrest Data

    By Christine Zhang

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    How we got the numbers on arrests of the homeless in LA, how we vetted the numbers, and, most importantly, how we found the story behind—and beyond—the numbers.

  9. Your Interactive Makes Me Sick

    By Eileen Webb

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    Picture this: you’re sitting in a car, and the car next to you starts to pull forward. For a moment you feel like you’re moving backwards. That brief feeling of disorientation, where the world is moving in a way your body doesn’t quite process—imagine that you feel like that all the time.

  10. Meet Column Setter

    By Rob Weychert

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    A tool that enables rapid prototyping with squeaky-clean code—today we’re making it open source.

  11. Democracy Depends on How We Archive and Share Data

    By Mar Cabra

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    What we do with data and documents after our reporting is done has a significant effect on the health of our democracies, says Mar Cabra, former head of the ICIJ Data & Research Unit.

  12. How to Save DNAInfo/Gothamist Bylines

    By Erin Kissane

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    The owner of the DNAInfo and Gothamist family of local news websites shut the sites down today, which means that not only are all their 115 journalists out of work, but all their bylines—and all the vital information in their years of reporting—is gone.

  13. Things You Made, Oct 24

    By Erin Kissane and Lindsay Muscato

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    Our regular biweekly roundup.

  14. Reinventing the Wheel, Over and Over Again

    By Rachel Schallom

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    Like most managers within the journalism industry, Squire received no training or guidance on how to hire. Hiring managers are left to develop their own systems, and a candidate’s experience at a company can widely vary depending on how the hiring manager does things.

  15. How We Made Cassini’s Grand Tour

    By Brian Jacobs

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    How National Geographic made a visualization of Cassini’s trip through the Saturn system.

  16. Teaching and Brainstorming Inclusive Technical Metaphors

    By Nicole Zhu

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    A session at SRCCON 2017 on inclusive metaphors in tech.

  17. Caregiving in and around Journalism

    By Emily Goligoski

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    The pressures on news staff to be resourceful and to deliver have never been greater. The stresses involved are compounded by our day-to-day caregiving responsibilities for our children, parents, and friends, among others.

  18. Tracking and Explaining the Repealing and Replacing

    By Geoff Hing

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    All the healthcare bill coverage, compiled.

  19. How Slack Controls Our CMS

    By Andrew Briz

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    Visit the “Latest Stories” page. See what’s new. Copy the slug. Go to the collections. Click the right row. Paste the slug. Hit save. That was the multi-step process of adding a story to the homepage of the LA Times up until a few weeks ago. Now, you just click a button.

  20. Same Diff: The English-Language Press Maps the French Election

    By David Yanofsky

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    Here’s a reminder: In normal times, US-based publications normally don’t put much effort into visualizing foreign elections. Of course, with presidency of Donald Trump, a British vote to leave the European Union, and a presidential election in France without either of the mainstream political parties qualifying, we don’t live in normal times.

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