q&a: brian boyer on the plan for panda: Ben Welsh talks with Brian Boyer about the ingredients for PANDA, a Newsroom Data Appliance. PANDA will be a place for folks in the newsroom to stash their data, and a tool for helping reporters search and compare data sets. Trust me, your newsroom needs a PANDA. […]
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How to make a heatmap in Google Fusion Tables
How to make a heatmap in Google Fusion Tables: Seems useful!
Making interactive maps less interactive
Making interactive maps less interactive: Making maps, part 1: Less interactivity. Brian Boyer of the Chicago Tribune on a mission to teach you how to make interactive maps that don’t suck. Step 1 is indeed to make them less interactive. I buy it. There’s a full tutorial spread out in a few posts. Follow along, kids.
Notes on working With Wikileaks data from a New York Times developer
Notes on working With Wikileaks data from a New York Times developer: Working With Wikileaks by Jacob Harris. This is the blog post and presentation I was clamoring for at ONA2010 last year, when a morning keynote panel instead more or less revolved around the question of “Is Wikileaks journalism?”
Tools to help bring data to your journalism
Great list from Michelle Minkoff. Tools to help bring data to your journalism
bouvard’s stovetop at master – GitHub
A personal JSONP API for Google Spreadsheets bouvard’s stovetop at master – GitHub
The 7 Steps to Successful Infographics
A casual guide to getting started in infographics from a seasoned veteran of major newspapers. The 7 Steps to Successful Infographics
Twitter Census data collection
The Twitter Census, from Infochimps Twitter Census data collection
Information architecture for news websites
A series of highly valuable posts by a young European student journalist bent on redesigning the way we build our news sites. Information architecture for news websites
Remix the News: what news can learn from Last.fm and Pandora
What’s the first step in building a “Pandora for news?” Normalize the data. Remix the News: what news can learn from Last.fm and Pandora