By Mindy McAdams
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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 [...]
There are several interesting comments on my EveryBlock post from yesterday. Feel free to join in.
Some people would like to see the data formatted differently.
Some think it’s more useful for reporters than for citizens, while others say it’s a great tool for citizen journalists, who are more concerned about “hyperlocal” news anyway.
Wired’s Compiler blog covered it:
The site touts itself as “a geographic filter” for your city or your neighborhood. Each of the three city-specific sites serve as an info-hub of sorts, showing the hot stories from local newspapers, radio and television stations as well as local blogs, free weekly papers and independent media sources.
Al Tompkins wrote [...]
I’m late in posting about The New York Times’s excellent multimedia package about wrongful convictions, so a lot of you have probably already admired it. Let’s consider a few key points about it:
Made with Flash by one of the more adept Flash journalists, Tom Jackson. Not a guy who learned Flash last month. In fact, [...]
About 13 years ago, when I worked on the online news product of The Washington Post, we struggled with two time-consuming challenges: classified ads and story categories. They were not the only challenges, of course, but they proved particularly difficult to manage.
The classifieds already had a highly structured system of categories (houses for sale, houses [...]
In an interview, Derek Willis, a database editor at washingtonpost.com, recommended this for journalism students:
There are plenty of academic disciplines that use data all the time. So if a student knows a professor who does survey research, that’s usually database-oriented. Or political scientists who study election results or voter participation — they usually deal with [...]
Online crime maps are local-local-local to the nth degree. Put a database behind a crime map, and it updates itself.
Danny Sanchez has created a wonderful list of these maps (20 at last count). Go and get schooled.
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