May 2013
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Make Your Website Accessible to Visually Impaired... →
10 Tips for making your website accessible to visually impaired people
May 16th
“At first glance, this seems a little bit creepy”
– At I/O, Google Will Be Tracking Things Like Noise Level And Air Quality With Hundreds Of Arduino-Based Sensors - TechCrunch (via iamdanw)
May 15th
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daniel sinker: OpenNews: Code Sprints do some... →
sinker: Data is a buzzword nowadays. Whether it’s sifting Big Data to influence business, or the promise of Open Data to transform government, or Data Analytics winning elections, data is constantly in the news. But one thing that gets glossed over in all the buzz is that data is hard. Really,…
May 8th
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May 1st
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April 2013
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Upcoming
This week and next, NYC has three amazing civic technology events. 1. BetaNYC, Meet "Code for America, NYC" Meet Code for America's NYC team! This Wed, we will hear from Code for America's fellows, who are working to improve the criminal justice system. We will hear from the brigade program who is building a better NY though weekly hacknights and NYC's BigApps. Additionally, we will hear from...
Apr 29th
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Apr 25th
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The gun fighter: Profile of one of America's... →
jtotheizzoe: More than 31,000 Americans were killed by firearms in 2011,  yet there are fewer than 20 academics who study gun violence. Part of this is because lobby groups have inserted language into laws preventing organizations like the CDC from funding gun research. Regardless of one’s view on guns, that smells like an anti-science way of doing things to me. Nature News has an awesome...
Apr 25th
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Apr 25th
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Apr 25th
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Summer internship
Summertime Gig with Data News We’ve got the perfect summer-break job for someone who digs data, has a nose for news and works fast. It’s six weeks on WNYC’s Data News Team. Join us and you will: Help WNYC cover breaking news, like our Hurricane Sandy work Help reporters find and mine data for major stories Help make maps, charts and web apps Help brainstorm and build feature projects,...
Apr 18th
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The Insanely Illustrated Guide To Your First... →
Apr 16th
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Apr 15th
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Apr 14th
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WatchWatch
Apr 13th
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Apr 12th
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Learning code & sharing code
babydatajournalism: Idea for teaching: If each student sets up a free GitHub account — They can make Gists, like this: https://gist.github.com/macloo/5363602 Could these be used for peer grading? Easy to share. Once the student has a GitHub account, he/she can write code in Codepen (http://codepen.io/) and automatically save to Gist from there. I’m probably going to introduce Git to...
Apr 11th
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Apr 8th
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Apr 8th
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Jobs!
Get thee on NICAR-L if thou art job hunting. I won’t insult my readers who read both by reposting listings here. Better you should see them there. PS. This doesn’t quite apply if thou art not a former student of mine. NICAR-L is a great source of job postings for #cunydata alums.
Apr 8th
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Mary Jo Webster's Favorite Formulas →
Stumbled on Chrys Wu’s NICAR 2011 slide roundup and found this gem.
Apr 5th
daniel sinker: OpenNews: Code Sprints in 2013 →
lifeandcode: sinker: Back at the Hacks/Hackers Media Party in Buenos Aires, I announced the creation of Code Sprints—funding opportunities to build open-sourced tools for journalism. We used Code Sprints to fund a collaboration between WNYC in New York and KPCC in Southern California to build a parser for… Source/Open News is getting *really* interesting.  Agreed.
Apr 4th
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Tabula →
Tables in a PDF? No problem. Take a look at the demo or get working with your own install. I’ve secretly had an account since just before NICAR and I’m smitten. Well done Manuel Aristarán, Mike Tigas, Jerey B. Merrill, La Nación and ProPublica.
Apr 3rd
Apr 2nd
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Apr 1st
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March 2013
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The story of every person killed by drone strikes... →
I am developing ever-stronger feelings about captive intros, but this is an interesting project.
Mar 31st
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“I’ve always been interested in food safety, and I felt like there were many...”
– From Jacob Harris on Mozilla, a great essay on process.
Mar 30th
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PDFs Considered Harmful →
A great story about PDFs and Dollars for Docs
Mar 30th
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Mar 29th
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Scraping Roundup →
Some interesting web scraping tools here.
Mar 28th
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Crawling Merchant Websites →
This is pretty good, not because the story is so brilliant (I’m filing it under “cute”) but because it is a great example of the kind of thing you can do with web scrapers.
Mar 25th
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Z-Scores →
via Rob Gebeloff’s NICAR13 talk on z-scores for comparing apples and oranges: The formula: z = (v-avg(v))/stdev(v)) where v is the variable, avg(v) is the average of the variable and stdev(v) is the standard deviation of the variable. In an Excel spreadsheet, the formula looks like this: = (B2-(AVERAGE(B$2:B$783)))/STDEV(B$2:B$783). You can then convert the z-score to the percentile value...
Mar 25th
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Mar 25th
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Mar 25th
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Mar 25th
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word clouds and bubbles
http://www.perceptualedge.com/blog/?p=1532
Mar 24th
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Mar 22nd
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Mar 22nd
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Data Viz on a Shoestring →
Some tools here that you know, some that are new to me, including Storytelling With Data, a blog full of great templates. In between they talk about Tabletop JS, Miso, and Highcharts, which I know about but you might not yet. Take a look, but keep in mind that infogr.am is a little too easy for class projects. 
Mar 22nd
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You are here: Home / Information Technology /... →
Why it took until 2012 to build a screen reader friendly prototype, I do not know, but this one is for the accessibility files.
Mar 22nd
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Speed Cameras →
Possibly also Gothamist’s first dataviz.
Mar 22nd
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NYer Bracket →
Someone described this as possibly the New Yorker’s first bracket. I like their angle.
Mar 22nd
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Mar 21st
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Critical Data On City's Transit System... →
Mar 20th
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CartoDB | Blog: New publishing template for... →
cartodb: A couple of weeks ago we launched two HTML templates for publishing your maps to the web to help you create custom content and provide more context for your maps. The templates are focused on two different use cases, one is targeting the editorial world by allowing content above and below…
Mar 19th
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jQuery for Beginners
babydatajournalism: Beginning jQuery from Mindy McAdams Beginning jQuery part 2 from Mindy McAdams
Mar 18th
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“The new product will allow users to upload their lease agreement, M&A...”
– Docracy Opens Up Document Genome Project To Let You Compare And Contrast Contracts And Patents | TechCrunch (via rickwebb) See also: using plagiarism algorithms to find local laws that share a single author.
Mar 18th
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Port Jefferson Supermarket Inspections  with a”things you should know” sidebar, from Martin Burch. Well done!
Mar 17th
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Mar 17th
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