Features / data
Learning What You Need Is a News Peg
Ben Welsh on making data journalism work with that time-honored strategy, the news peg
Learning Predicting the Future, Elections Edition
Wherein Jeremy Bowers gets help from experts, builds an election-predicting app, and makes sure readers can see how it works.
Learning Sane Data Updates Are Harder than You Think: Part 2
Second of five case studies by Adrian Holovaty about hairy data-parsing problems from a journalist’s perspective.
Learning Finding Stories in the Structure of Data
Matt Waite sees structure in unstructured data, and you should too.
Learning London Calling: Winning the Data Olympics
Jacqui Maher on wrangling massively complex, really messy data in (almost) realtime.
Learning Freeing the Plum Book
Derek Willis mines government mobile apps to liberate data and issues a call to arms for collaboration.
Learning 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 Introducing Tabula
- By Manuel Aristarán, Mike Tigas
- Manuel Aristarán, Jeremy B. Merrill, Mike Tigas
- OpenNews, ProPublica
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.
Learning How the Data Sausage Gets Made
Jacob Harris explains the perils of making government food safety data usable for journalistic research.
Learning Sane Data Updates Are Harder than You Think
First of 5 case studies by Adrian Holovaty about hairy data-parsing problems from a journalist’s perspective.
Tool ProPublica’s News Apps Guides
Yesterday morning, the ProPublica apps team released a series of documents outlining their coding philosophy, app design and development practices, data validation techniques, and more. We spoke with Scott Klein about how his team’s processes evolved and how they made the time to document it all.
Roundup Why EveryBlock Mattered to Us
- By Erin Kissane
Yesterday morning, EveryBlock announced its sudden closure by its parent company, NBC. The news developer and civic code worlds reacted with intense sadness and a recognition of the advances made possible by EveryBlock and its founders.
Project Stop & Frisk: Guns
A mapping project from WNYC that displays NYPD stop-and-frisks by block and locations where the police discovered guns during such stops.
Project SchoolBook
- By Tyson Evans
- Jeremy Ashkenas, Kim Bost, Ahn Dang, Tyson Evans, Rob Gebeloff, Mary Ann Giordano, Brian Hamman, Jacqui Maher
- The New York Times, WNYC
The New York Times and WNYC have joined forces on a new site dedicated to news, data and conversation about schools in New York City. SchoolBook is now the main place to find coverage of schools in New York by The Times and WNYC. SchoolBook’s home page will mix those news, feature and multimedia stories with essays by members of the education community, as well as photos, videos, queries, comments and more.