By Mindy McAdams
You will see something cool here if you upgrade your Flash player.
Made with Google Maps:
Mapping the election conditions in Zimbabwe, from Sokwanele.com (Zimbabwe Civic Action Support Group).
(Link via Information Aesthetics.)
P.S. Mark Luckie provides a good set of links to free and simple map-making tools.
Let’s think about programming today. Or scripting, if you will.
To go beyond static pages of text and images online, you will need at least a little programming. One reason why I advocate for everyone to learn at least a little is that if you bog down your newsroom’s expert programmer with too many trivial tasks, [...]
As newsrooms everywhere struggle to adapt to the digital information environment, everybody in the newsroom needs to gain some multimedia literacy.
At the basic level, that means you understand what the media are suited for. Even if you do not know how to make an audio slideshow, you must understand what kinds of stories work well [...]
Others have already blogged this, but it bears repeating — this is a beautiful package of data. Loads like lightning. Combines Flash and XML and HTML and CSS. Easy to figure out. Just a gorgeous example of what a team of smart, well-organized journalists can put together if they know what they’re doing.
Nice work from MSNBC.com on a Bridge Tracker graphic that allows you to enter any two U.S. cities and see all bridges between them, with data about safety inspections for each bridge. Data for more than 100,000 bridges are included. The graphic is part of an investigative package about bridge inspections.
Apart from its news value, [...]
Adrian Holovaty has announced the shutdown of chicagocrime.org, the groundbreaking online dynamic data project that has inspired so many journalists since 2005 (only 2005? Gosh, it seems much longer … Internet years …).
The site is still functioning today, but according to Adrian’s post, it will be gone tomorrow.
One of many things I have liked to [...]
Florida has its presidential primaries under way today, and The Miami Herald has produced a nifty data-driven map to show the results:
University of Florida journalism alum Stephanie Rosenblatt (May 2007) e-mailed to say that the Herald graphic is using feeds coming in live from the AP. The numbers are feeding into XML documents, and Stephanie’s [...]
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