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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 »

Is a flat text file or a database right for an app?

February 21st, 2010

I've been busily coding away on my final project for my data visualization independent study. I'm looking at data that I've been slowly acquiring on the life of art galleries that were in Chicago in 1990. Back then, the Chicago Artists' Coalition had a complete listing in a pamphlet (more like a book) they put out for artists Read More...

Tags: aggregate, application, approaching the end, art galleries, bubble chart, chicago artists, city limits, computer asssisted reporting, current issue, data visualization, database, flat text file, independent study, interface, metro chicago area, neighborhood, paintings, pamphlet, principle, processing, sculptures, sql, sql statements, statistics, text, theory, visualizing data, zip code
Posted in CAR, data visualizations, processing, sql | No Comments »

Visualizing networking: When it doesn’t work

February 15th, 2010

So much in journalism and in life, we strive for perfection in our work. The best story idea, the best presentation. We strive for perfection as individuals, we compete to be the best, get to the scene before someone else, write tighter, edit faster. But sometimes, it’s just as important to recognize when something just didn’t work Read More...

Tags: audience, both genders, data visualizations, fail, getting a job, great potential, huckleberry finn, independent study, journalism, mark twain, networking, observation, political agenda, programming exercise, s programming, social networking, story idea, visualization technique, visualizing data
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Visual confections are more than mere presentation

February 15th, 2010

Data visualization. It's one of those terms that can mean so many things. I say I'm doing an independent study on data visualization this quarter. That's true. But a better description would be "data visualizations for journalism." I've talked about this with people before, a lot of pieces are gorgeous, and they do convey information, but they don't tell a story that informs the viewer in a useful way Read More...

Tags: aggregate, capability, checkout line, class, colors, confection, data visualization, data visualizations, edward tufte, hershey bar, independent study, initiative, journalism, journalists, many things, news web, princeton, senses, sweets, theory, transcription, tufte, visual explanations, wordnet
Posted in class, data visualizations, theory, tufte | 1 Comment »

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