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Using Javascript for interactive Google charts

March 29th, 2010

Want to provide interactive graphs to news consumers quickly and easily on platforms that simply don't support Flash? Enter the "hidden power of Javascript," a key component of the Google Visualization API. It was the subject of a recent "Lightning Talk" I gave at NICAR 2010 in Phoenix. My slides and a more thorough walk-through are included below Read More...

Tags: api, bar graph, cool stuff, data, divs, google, html tags, interaction, interactive bar, interactive graphs, journalism, journalist, lightning, nicar, platforms, possibilities, sake, second glance, slides, support flash, triangle, visualization, web, web savvy
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Django app #2: Conquering forms and Google Maps API

February 28th, 2010

It's been a busy week for the programming journalists -- as I'm sure you've seen. Congrats to all, especially the dev team at The New York Times, who just released the newest version of the Congress API, with plenty more robust features to play with, as well as my recent Data Delver interviewee Andy Boyle (who is #11 in my backlog, I'll get to you all before NICAR, I promise!) who just released a Django app, with the help of his St Read More...

Tags: api, backlog, boyle, colleagues, congress, delver, dev team, django, exploring data, finished piece, gallery, independent study, interviewee, job, journalists, new york times, persistence, pythonpath, rich gordon, robust features, searchable database, sql, sqlite, study advisor, visualization
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Using Javascript for interactive Google charts

Django app #2: Conquering forms and Google Maps API

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