Features / mapping
Project Mapping the History of Street Names
OpenNews Fellow Noah Veltman breaks down the design and code decisions behind his History of SF Place Names map.
Interview Meet Gustavo Faleiros
The second in a series of interviews with Knight International Journalism Fellows.
Interview Meet Mariana Santos
The first in a series of interviews with Knight International Journalism Fellows.
Project How We Made “Your Warming World”
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.
Project Anatomy of the “Living Apart” map
Last month, ProPublica launched the Living Apart series with an investigation into the Fair Housing Act of 1968 and an interactive map showing the migration of African Americans from 1890-2010.
Project The Making of ProPublica’s Pipeline Safety Feature
Last week, ProPublica released an explainer on fires, chemical spills, explosions, and other incidents related to US oil and gas pipelines, along with an interactive map and a series of charts and tables. Reporter-designer-developer Lena Groeger explains how the project came about, what challenges she encountered, and how she assembled the final presentation.
Project Mother Jones’ Voter Suppression Map
How the Mother Jones nerd desk whipped up a multi-layered map of verified incidents of voter suppression for the 2012 US elections.
Project The Guardian’s Sandy Incidents Map
Simon Rogers on the rapid development of their verified Sandy events map and dataset.
Roundup Superstorm Sandy: Code and Interactives
- By Erin Kissane
- Timothy C. Barmann, John Burn-Murdoch, Andrew Hill, John Keefe, Louise Ma, Steven Melendez, Simon Rogers
- Providence Journal, The Guardian, The New York Times, Vizzuality, WNYC
As superstorm Sandy approached the East Coast of the US, newsdev teams ranging from large to tiny created maps, charts, trackers, and tables about the storm’s path, expected effects, and civic responses.
Project 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
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.