February 2012
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daniel sinker: NICAR 12 Brings the Love--and the... →
sinker: NICAR 12 Brings the Love—and the Code I spent a rapid-fire 23 hours in St. Louis this weekend at the NICAR 12 conference. For those that don’t know, NICAR stands for “National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting,” and, as the slightly-antiquated name might suggest, was founded long before…
Feb 28th
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Feb 27th
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Feb 27th
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The Society for News Design – SND →
This is a great round up of great news design, if you need inspiration.
Feb 27th
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Own Your Map Stack (slides) →
Feb 27th
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http://media.apps.chicagotribune.com/mapslides/slid... →
Feb 26th
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Tabletop.js →
Feb 25th
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http://dannguyen.github.com/NICAR-Google-Refine/ →
Google Refine for Investigative Journalism
Feb 24th
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NICAR 2012 Free Data Visualization Tools Resources →
Feb 24th
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Data for Business Journalism, NICAR 2012 →
Feb 24th
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Tools, Slides and Links from NICAR12 // Ricochet... →
Feb 24th
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datatherapy | creative data presentation tips for... →
A whole blog about creative presentation of data.
Feb 24th
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Dona Wong →
Feb 24th
deck.js  →
senceablemoscow: How to Create a Compelling Browser-Based Presentation in Minutes with Deck.js With looking at.
Feb 23rd
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Reporters' Lab →
Tools, techniques and research for public affairs reporting (Duke University)
Feb 21st
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Vacancy rates and Foreclosures in St. Paul  →
Vacancy rates and Foreclosures in St. Paul (Pioneer Press)
Feb 20th
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GeoCommons →
Feb 20th
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sfgeo.org gut(s) →
Another resource for transforming shapefiles to KML or GeoJSON.
Feb 19th
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Feb 18th
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Don't make me think! : a common sense approach to... →
Feb 18th
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How to create a visualization - O'Reilly Radar →
Pete Warden walks through the steps behind his latest Facebook visualization.
Feb 18th
Best of the Visualization Web →
lifeandcode: Great, big list of data visualizations, many from news organizations, great to browse around on on a Saturday morning:   At the end of each month I pull together a collection of links to some of the most relevant, interesting or thought-provoking web content I’ve come across during the previous month. If you follow me on Twitter andGoogle+ you will see many of these items shared...
Feb 18th
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Scraping for Journalism: A Guide for Collecting... →
Feb 17th
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“The chart below shows income inequality in the 818 largest counties in the U.S....”
– Income Inequality Near You (Pro Publica)
Feb 17th
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Feb 17th
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“This subject is aimed at students with little or no programming experience. It...”
– MIT OpenCourseWare | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | 6.00  Introduction to Computer Science and Programming (via biff-courses)
Feb 17th
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More Fusion Tables
A query to NICAR-L produced this list of recent news stories that used Fusion tables: Flying the Leaded Skies, Look at Cook, Rains come to Texas but drought could last for years, Deep sea gold rush: World’s hydrothermal vent fields
Feb 16th
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Feb 16th
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Population Pyramid →
Human population interactive from American Scientist. There’s a nice writeup of the back story at > http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/pixels-or-perish — it isn’t going to knock your design socks off, but it’s a really nice start.
Feb 15th
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State of the Union Deep Dive | The White House →
Make your way to slide 42 and tell me what’s wrong with this picture. More good questions: how big is a single class (Slide 30) and what the heck does “output per hour” measure (Slide 20)?
Feb 14th
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Home - census.ire.org →
IRE’s Census project.
Feb 14th
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Webcast: An Introduction to Ethics of Big Data →
An O’reilly webinar, 2/16/2012
Feb 14th
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Federal Judicial Center →
Feb 14th
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Cops among Florida's worst speeders, Sun Sentinel... →
Actually, there’s no visualization here at all, but it is a great data driven story nonetheless.
Feb 14th
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Planning a Map?
Look up “shapefile” — if you want to plot raw data against something like police precincts or City Council districts, you need to know where those districts are. You need shapefiles. You can find local shapefiles at NYC’s data portal, more at City Planning, but if you can’t find what you’re looking for, never underestimate the power of the lazyweb. WNYC’s...
Feb 13th
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Feb 13th
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Big Data’s Impact in the World - NYTimes.com →
Feb 13th
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State Campaign Finance Roundup
Influence Explorer and Openstates (from Sunlight), Campaign Finance (from IRE), National Institute for Money in State Politics. More? NPR has a whole spreadsheet.
Feb 10th
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Feb 9th
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Using Python to access tweets from the command... →
Feb 8th
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bitly blog →
The Bit.ly blog does some neat graphing of their traffic and usage patterns. Lots to learn here on the charting *and* getting-the-most-out-of-social-media fronts.
Feb 8th
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Feb 7th
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What's Wrong with MBA Rankings :: MBA Guide →
Feb 7th
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The use and abuse of bar graphs - Brendan Nyhan →
Feb 7th
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Transparency - GOOD →
GOOD Magazine publishes some great visualizations. Often they’re static images (not interactive) but they still have a nice visual sensibility.
Feb 7th
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The Data Journalism Handbook: Final call for... →
If only there were a manual!
Feb 7th
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Feb 6th
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