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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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Exploring Drupal — open source tool of the day

February 12th, 2010

As part of an ongoing quest to learn as much about programming and technical tools as I strive to learn about the beats I cover, I jumped at the opportunity to attend a Drupal training this evening. I didn't know this before today, but there is a robust Drupal user group here in Chicago, appropriately named the Chicago Drupal Meet Up Group Read More...

Tags: beats, blank slate, Chicago Drupal Meetup Group, citizen journalism, database host, django, drupal, google, google analytics code, happy medium, irc channel, meetings focus, open source, open time, robots, ruby, technical tools, tools, user group, video tutorials, white house, wordpress
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