At the 2014 OpenNews code convening, we took on the task of making a reusable system that could allow other organizations to produce something sentiment grids with a bare minimum of technical know-how ...

Last weekend, ten teams participated in a competition to develop newsgames at Editors’ Lab New York, a hackathon organized by the Global Editors Network and The New York Times. Combining the ...

The Platte Basin Timelapse Project started in March 2011 with the goal of placing timelapse cameras throughout the basin and documenting time passing along one of Nebraska’s most important water ...

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In both of these examples, the first image is based on the same projection as that upper left corner map in my first example, called a Mercator projection. Frankly, for Hawaii, it’s not a terrible ...

The job of a data journalist is to turn data into a story. If you start with a spreadsheet of cancer rates, the story might be “people living near oil refineries had three times the rate of lung ...

The Tech Stack We believe in open source technology and try to use it as much as possible. We used Apache Solr for the indexing and Apache Tika for document processing, and it’s great because it ...

With the launching of 538, Vox and the New York Times’ Upshot, it seems like the age of data journalism is finally here, greeted with both acclaim and concern by media critics. But data journalism is ...

Feb. 14, 2022 (Ongoing) This document captures many of the excellent tips and resources on equitable and inclusive hiring practices that have been shared in the DEI Coalition Slack. The resources, ...

Ultimately, I think the graphic produced by the Times did an excellent job of reminding readers about the human costs of the violence. By making the focus of the chart a single day of violence, we ...

We use streamtools to receive event data from the queue, count it, and store the resulting timeseries. The pattern for this is above, and goes as follows: messages flow from the NSQ queue into the ...

Extraordinary documentation can make for an extraordinary story—and terrible trouble for sources and vulnerable populations if handled without enough care. Recently, the Intercept published a story ...