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How We Made “Billions of Birds Migrate”
By Brian Jacobs
Posted onNational Geographic’s enormous bird migration interactive and how it came to be.
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How We Mapped 1.3m Data Points Using Mapbox
By David Blood and Ændrew Rininsland
Posted onInside our totally complex cartographic endeavor to map broadband.
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How We Made the New Big Mac Index Interactive
By Martín González, Evan Hensleigh, Matt McLean, Marie Segger, and Alex Selby-Boothroyd
Posted onA walkthrough of making an iconic index new again.
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Diary of a Local Data Reporter
By Rachel Alexander
Posted onA deep dive into the ethics and process behind an investigation into overdoses in Spokane, Washington.
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The Sound of Disparity
By Jim Briggs and Sinduja Rangarajan
Posted onInside Reveal’s incredible data sonification project, bringing Silicon Valley’s diversity problem to our ears.
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Things You Made, April 5
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onOur regular biweekly roundup of notable projects and OpenNews updates.
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How We Publish Live Chats with Slack
By Andrew Briz
Posted onCreating a newsroom tool from scratch.
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How We Found New Patterns in LA’s Homeless Arrest Data
By Christine Zhang
Posted onHow 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.
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Your Interactive Makes Me Sick
By Eileen Webb
Posted onPicture 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.
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Meet Column Setter
By Rob Weychert
Posted onA tool that enables rapid prototyping with squeaky-clean code—today we’re making it open source.
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Democracy Depends on How We Archive and Share Data
By Mar Cabra
Posted onWhat 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.
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How to Save DNAInfo/Gothamist Bylines
By Erin Kissane
Posted onThe 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.
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Things You Made, Oct 24
By Erin Kissane and Lindsay Muscato
Posted onOur regular biweekly roundup.
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Reinventing the Wheel, Over and Over Again
By Rachel Schallom
Posted onLike 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.
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How We Made Cassini’s Grand Tour
By Brian Jacobs
Posted onHow National Geographic made a visualization of Cassini’s trip through the Saturn system.
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Teaching and Brainstorming Inclusive Technical Metaphors
By Nicole Zhu
Posted onA session at SRCCON 2017 on inclusive metaphors in tech.
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Caregiving in and around Journalism
By Emily Goligoski
Posted onThe 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.
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Tracking and Explaining the Repealing and Replacing
By Geoff Hing
Posted onAll the healthcare bill coverage, compiled.
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How Slack Controls Our CMS
By Andrew Briz
Posted onVisit 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.
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Same Diff: The English-Language Press Maps the French Election
By David Yanofsky
Posted onHere’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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