While discussing the rambly nature of this blog, Heather Billings and I decided late at night it might be time to change the tagline to "A Data Ghetto of my Thoughts." I thought some here might appreciate this. Today marks my triumphant, yet sad, return from the NICAR conference in Raleigh. There was a frightening amount of tweeting, and I literally talked myself out of a voice Read More...
Our industry of "news application development" is still in its infancy. As I'm given the freedom to reinvent how we do news apps over at PBS News, I'm relying heavily on staying plugged in to what's going on elsewhere in the community. What have people done so far? How is it going? What have they learned? How does my experience differ from theirs? Luckily, I count many of these colleagues among my friends, and we continually learn from each other Read More...
When we last met, dear reader, I *may* have gone into a frighteningly long rant on the state of news apps. It's a conversation that came up again this Friday on Twitter, and it just reminded me how lucky I am (I'll say it again and again) to be in my current environment. But I can do more than write angsty blog posts and tweets! In fact, people even pay me to make such Web projects! Isn't that coincidental? (Not really Read More...
This is officially the longest post I've ever written, and I hope not to repeat it. About 2500 words. I'm sorry. If that annoys you, well, it's my blog. But when someone from the group of journos you expect to have a secure job..doesn't--It calls everything into question. Here is the reaction to a wake-up call, questions about how we're "saving journalism" and a reminder that none of us in life can afford to be complacent Read More...
Yes, my editor has an affinity for puns and actually encourages the type of behavior in the headline. Breaking out of the typical j-school mold a little more each day (but little about me is typical to begin with). I was delighted to hear that USA Today, and more specifically data journalist-colleagues Anthony DeBarros and Paul Overberg among others, would be releasing 'ready-to-analyze' census data to IRE members Read More...
Nothing too groundbreaking here, if you're a coder, but this was interesting to me in my coding development. This weekend, I pounded away at the Document Cloud API, experimenting with how we might integrate it into our continually-developing workflow at PBS News. This taught me a) the DC folks have some of the clearest documentation I've ever seen, b) the DC folks are really responsive to requests, as in they added created and modified dates to the API less than two hours after I requested it, c) Don't make test documents public, esp Read More...
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