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

• 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.

Project jQuery Highcharts JavaScript TileMill mapping climate change Leaflet Panoply NetCDF MapBox HTML Backbone CSS How We Made “Your Warming World”

• By Peter Aldhous, Chris Amico, Erin Kissane
• Peter Aldhous, Chris Amico
• New Scientist

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.

Interview data visualization Google Spreadsheets JavaScript Jessica Lord on sheetsee.js

• By Erin Kissane
• Jessica Lord
• Code for America

Jessica Lord breaks down the context and process behind sheetsee.js, a JavaScript mashup developed during her Code for America fellowship.