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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
Posted in class, data visualizations, django, programming | 1 Comment »

Data Delver: Chase Davis, California Watch

February 20th, 2010

My next Data Delver: By day, he's an investigative reporter. By night, he's Superman! (Okay, he actually builds database applications with co-conspirator Matt Waite. But that's almost the same, right?) The CAR world, as I see it, has two different paths you can go down: continue to use data for reporting stories, or apply those skills to web development and presenting data Read More...

Tags: access, aol games, application, apps, best case scenario, car lovers, car specialist, car world, careful control, computer assisted reporting, conspirator, conversations, data delver, data delvers, database applications, delver, different paths, investigative reporter, investigative reporting, journalism, journalists, new frontiers, qbasic, regulators, using technology
Posted in CAR, data delvers | 1 Comment »

Michelle Minkoff

Django app #2: Conquering forms and Google Maps API

Data Delver: Chase Davis, California Watch

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