Features / JSON

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

• By Erin Kissane, J. Nathan Matias, Irene Ros
• Adam Hyland, J. Nathan Matias, Irene Ros
• Bocoup, MIT Center for Civic Media

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.

Project Rails JSON results reporting AP data APIs SQL elections The New York Times’ Election Results Loader

• By Jacob Harris
• Brian Hamman, Jacob Harris, Jacqui Maher, Michael Strickland, Derek Willis
• The New York Times

Jacob Harris breaks down the data, the code choices, and the rationales behind the NYT’s results loader for the US 2012 elections.

Project mapping JSON elections WYNC & KPCC’s California Elections Map

• By John Keefe
• Kim Bui, Adam DePrince, Schuyler Duveen, John Keefe, Louise Ma, Glenn Mohre
• KPCC, OpenNews, WNYC

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