Database about local school discipline
Here’s a nice local, local, local package that would grab the attention of parents in your circulation area (if you made your own version, that is):
This package about public school suspensions, from the Northwest Florida Daily News (a 38,000-circ. daily located between Pensacola and Panama City on the beautiful Florida panhandle) might look like Flash to you — but it’s not!
It’s all JavaScript and CSS, with a database back-end. Sweet! The database was built from scratch in MySQL for this project by Daily News programmer Matt Minix. The data were gathered by education reporter Rachel Kyler. I got all this from online editor Isaac Sabetai, who feels pretty proud of what they accomplished. I don’t blame him.
The About This Project page explains how the newspaper used public records to create this interesting database. The complete project is here.
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