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Roundup events Event Roundup, Apr 15

By Erika Owens

Events around the world this week: Spain, UK, and around the U.S.(not just the coasts).

Project Raspberry Pi lobbies data display The Lobbyist Registration Meter

We spotted Tom Lee’s Lobbyist Registration Meter video on YouTube this morning and it made our day. Lee, director of the Sunlight Foundation’s Sunlight Labs, used an old voltmeter, a Raspberry Pi, and Sunlight Foundation data to create a meter that physically displays the number of new lobbyist registrations in Washington, DC. Lee very kindly agreed to answer a few questions about his setup and the data behind it.

Learning data Freeing the Plum Book

Derek Willis mines government mobile apps to liberate data and issues a call to arms for collaboration.

Project Replaying A Night in the Life of a Cabbie

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.

Roundup events Event Roundup, Apr 8

By Erika Owens

Today, John Keefe will teach data visualization basics in New Jersey. This week, the Global Editors Network Editors’ Lab heads to Cairo.

Learning data Olympics Lessons: Data Journalists, Meet Your Audience

The NYT’s Tiff Fehr on figuring out what Olympics fans expected and how her team made them happy.

Project bill tracking statewide open states api Google Docs Tabletop JavaScript Launching the Minnesota Legislative Bill Tracker

By Beth Hawkins, Kaeti Hinck, Tom Nehil, James Nord, Erika Owens, Alan Palazzolo
Beth Hawkins, Kaeti Hinck, Tom Nehil, James Nord, Alan Palazzolo
MinnPost

This week, MinnPost launched an effort to track legislation in Minnesota throughout the 2013 session.

Project Ruby PDF JavaScript data Introducing Tabula

A new PDF data extraction tool conceived by Manuel Aristarán and built out in a collaboration between Aristarán, who is a Knight-Mozilla Fellow at La Nación, and Mike Tigas, Fellow at ProPublica, and ProPublica’s Jeremy B. Merrill.

Roundup events Event Roundup, Apr 1

By Erika Owens

Applications open this week for Code with me: Portland. Plus, National Conference for Media Reform this weekend.

Learning data How the Data Sausage Gets Made

Jacob Harris explains the perils of making government food safety data usable for journalistic research.

Roundup events Event Roundup, Mar 25

By Erika Owens

Hacks/Hackers meetups in Rochester, Berlin, and Boston this week. Plus, today is the last day to apply for Grants for Innovation in Development Reporting.

Roundup roundup Apps + Code + Viz Roundup, March 21

By Erin Kissane

It’s been a fruitful couple of weeks for news apps and people writing about them: this roundup brings a sturdy batch of new features and tools and about twice as many write-ups as usual.

Roundup events Event Roundup, Mar 18

By Erika Owens

The Knight News Challenge deadline is ~~today~~ Tuesday at 5pm Eastern Daylight Time. (Due to technical difficulties, the deadline has been extended one day.)

Project analysis JRuby OpenNLP JSON Under the Hood of the Open Gender Tracker

Open Gender Tracker is an open source deployable content analysis service funded by a Knight Foundation Prototype grant. We spoke with its creators about the project’s origins, technical specifications, and possible future in and near newsrooms.

Community Update studies case Welcome to OpenNews Learning on Source

By Erin Kissane
Adrian Holovaty, Miranda Mulligan, Kio Stark, Matt Waite

Today, we launched OpenNews Learning, a brand-new kind of awesomeness hosted here on Source. We’re opening with three crunchy case studies from three heavy hitters.