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...
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And, scene. That's a term borrowed from theater, it's used as an act or scene closes. My giant Chicago art gallery persistence project is completed. We've got a trend article that uses CAR techniques, and a Flash visualization and a searchable database. The main thrust to the story is that of the galleries that existed in Chicago in 1990, about half have survived Read More...
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Teachers are true heroes in today's society, I owe so much to almost every one that I've ever had the privilege of working with. As the daughter of an elementary school teacher, and from teaching some classes on my own, I know that repetition is a key part of passing knowledge from your brain to my brain Read More...
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Hi! I'm Michelle, a passionate journalist-programmer on an ongoing quest to combine data, technology and writing in the service of telling stories about our world.
My current playground for experimenting is the Associated Press' Washington, DC bureau, where I work as an Interactive Producer, focusing on the data journalism I live, breathe and love.
Before this adventure, I was a Data Producer at PBS, and before that, I was a data developer/journo intern at the LA Times' Data Desk.
The seed for the data journalism mission was planted in grad school at Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism, about 40 minutes from the Chicago suburb I grew up in.
I've held five other internships focusing on online, print and broadcast work throughout the nation, from Chicago to Boston.
Comments, opinions and whatever else appears in this space belongs to me and me alone. They do not reflect the views of The Associated Press or any other institution I have worked for.
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