Piece de resistance: Data viz wrapup

March 8th, 2010

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...

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...