Piece de resistance: Data viz wrapup

Posted by on Mar 8, 2010 in Blog, CAR, class, data visualizations, django, projects, tufte | No Comments

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 ...

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Django app #2: Conquering forms and Google Maps API

Posted by on Feb 28, 2010 in Blog, class, data visualizations, django, programming | One Comment

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 ...

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