The Chicago MigraHack, held earlier this month, focused on the use of technology and open data to produce innovative apps and information tools on immigration and related topics. Nine teams participated, and we spoke with two members of the team that produced Finding Care, winner of the prize for best storytelling with data visualization.

At The Boston Globe, I was charged with helping readers understand that struggle—to experience a night in the life of a cab driver—using a digital interactive. The result was published alongside an amazing article by the Globe’s resident journalist-sportswriter-cabbie, Bob Hohler.

On the most recent episode of Dave Stanton’s View Source podcast, Chris Amico walks through the process of making Your Warming World.

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.

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

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

Mike Bostock explains how he and Shan Carter created the 512 Paths interactive feature, from early sketches to complete implementation.

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

How the WNYC data team turned California’s live elections data into an embeddable map based on a