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Teaching Online Journalism

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Notes from the classroom and observations about today’s practice of journalism online

Archive for the “maps” category

Flight Delay Calculator: Cool and useful

Friday, April 25, 2008

I don’t know what inspired the clever folks at the Las Vegas Sun to concoct this, but it is great fun for a frequent flyer such as I:
Flight Delay Calculator
See what bad records some airports have for delayed flights — all over the United States. Look up your most hated airline (tough choice!) or how […]

Map of Zimbabwe elections

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

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.

New York Times map and data for Super Tuesday

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

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.

Maps and dynamic data: Bridge Tracker

Sunday, February 3, 2008

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, […]

Bidding farewell to Chicago Crime

Thursday, January 31, 2008

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 […]

XML and data in Flash for smooth updates

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

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 […]

Breaking news graphics: A comparison of fire maps

Sunday, October 28, 2007

Xaquin Gonzalez Veira compared online news organizations’ maps of the California fires last week. Gonzalez, the assistant art director at Newsweek who is responsible for the magazine’s online interactive graphics, writes his blog in Spanish, so I have taken the liberty of translating and paraphrasing his post: California en llamas (California in flames).
Gonzalez had […]