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Tool documentation style validation design ProPublica’s News Apps Guides

• By Scott Klein
• Scott Klein, Jennifer LaFleur, Jeff Larson
• ProPublica

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.

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.