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q&a: brian boyer on the plan for panda

August 20, 2011 Ryan SholinLeave a comment

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. Excited for this.

Posted in NewstangleTagged data, Knight News Challenge, Online News

How to make a heatmap in Google Fusion Tables

June 23, 2011 Ryan SholinLeave a comment

How to make a heatmap in Google Fusion Tables: Seems useful!

Posted in NewstangleTagged data, data visualization, google, infographics, tools

Making interactive maps less interactive

March 14, 2011 Ryan SholinLeave a comment

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.

Posted in NewstangleTagged Brian Boyer, data, interactivity, maps

Notes on working With Wikileaks data from a New York Times developer

March 14, 2011 Ryan SholinLeave a comment

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?”

Posted in NewstangleTagged data, Jacob Harris, nytimes, WikiLeaks

Tools to help bring data to your journalism

November 8, 2010 Ryan SholinLeave a comment

Great list from Michelle Minkoff.

Tools to help bring data to your journalism

Posted in NewstangleTagged data, tools

bouvard’s stovetop at master – GitHub

October 11, 2010 Ryan SholinLeave a comment

A personal JSONP API for Google Spreadsheets

bouvard’s stovetop at master – GitHub

Posted in NewstangleTagged data, google+docs, json

The 7 Steps to Successful Infographics

May 11, 2010 Ryan SholinLeave a comment

A casual guide to getting started in infographics from a seasoned veteran of major newspapers.

The 7 Steps to Successful Infographics

Posted in NewstangleTagged data, design, infographics, journalism, Newspapers

Twitter Census data collection

April 29, 2010 Ryan SholinLeave a comment

The Twitter Census, from Infochimps

Twitter Census data collection

Posted in NewstangleTagged data, Technology, Twitter

Information architecture for news websites

April 27, 2010 Ryan SholinLeave a comment

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

Posted in NewstangleTagged data, informationarchitecture, journalism, onlinenews, the information business, web design

Remix the News: what news can learn from Last.fm and Pandora

April 27, 2010 Ryan SholinLeave a comment

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

Posted in NewstangleTagged data, informationarchitecture, journalism, remix

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