Project The Guardian Launches an Open Redesign for US Readers
The new site is responsive, speedy, and fully backed by new tools for journalists. We spoke with the project’s leaders about their experience, the new features, and what they have planned for the future.
Roundup Event Roundup, Oct 20
- By Erika Owens
Events are happening this weekend in West Virginia, Munich, Córdoba, and of course, London for the Mozilla Festival.
Learning The Census of Governments Has Your Number
Michael Maciag‘s walk-through of this under-utilized goldmine.
Event CrowData Grows Up
A La Nación hackathon to enhance the open-source file-freeing tool behind VozData results in a better CrowData and a tall list of changes to come.
Roundup Event Roundup, Oct 13
- By Erika Owens
Events in New York, Bogotá, and London, plus the deadline for the next OpenNews code convening.
How-to Twitter Mapping: Foundations
Twitter’s data editor lays out the major challenges and opportunities that arise when you set out to map tweets.
Project The Case for Flat Files in Big Data Projects
Time’s Chris Wilson and Pratheek Rebala open up the enormous Open Payments dataset from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services using flat files and Ajax.
Roundup Event Roundup, Oct 6
- By Erika Owens
Hacks/Hackers are meeting up in four countries this week, plus applications are open to participate in a hackathon at Al Jazeera.
Tool Eleven Awesome Things You Can Do with csvkit
Christopher Groskopf, master of CSVs, breaks down the magical powers of csvkit.
Learning Finding Stories in Census Data
Emily Alpert Reyes on how to find promising needles in Census haystacks.
Roundup Event Roundup, Sept 29
- By Erika Owens
Conferences in Japan and Mexico, plus meetups in New York and Vienna.
Learning A Big Article About Wee Things
- By Lena Groeger
Lena Groeger on the magical powers of every little thing.
Project Package Data Like Software, and the Stories Will Flow Like Wine
The California Civic Data Coalition issues a challenge.
Project Introducing the California Civic Data Coalition
Launching with two new Django applications ready made to make California campaign finance data easier to access.
Project Video Synchronization for Collective Viewing
- By Brian Chirls
POV’s Brian Chirls on why video sync is a giant pain and how to make it work.
Project Empire: Lessons from Pushing the Boundaries of Web Video
Brian Chirls introduces an ambitious video framework for a challenging interactive documentary.
Roundup Event Roundup, Sept 22
- By Erika Owens
Web journalism lovers descend on Chicago this year for the Online News Association annual conference.
Learning Gender, Twitter, and the Value of Taking Things Apart
Jake Harris reverse-engineers Twee-Q to evaluate its use of data (and see if his ratio is as disappointing as Twee-Q says it is)
Roundup Event Roundup, Sept 8
- By Erika Owens
Hacks/Hackers meeting up in Europe, and geography nerds in Portland, OR this week.
Project From the BBC News Labs: Datastringer
Basile Simon walks through the process of building a new tool that aims to help reporters cover beats, and that was prompted by work by Knight-Mozilla Fellows and a presentation at Hacks/Hackers London.
