Treemapping Gov. Quinn’s State of the State

February 9th, 2010

This week in the Processing book, I learned all about trees and hierarchies. There's a lot of potential here for allowing the user to delve deeper into interactives by providing multiple layers. This is a very cool example of how programming helps support my theory of journalism -- the deeper the information you offer, the more the user has to explore Read More...

Data Delver: Tyson Evans, NY Times Interface Engineer

January 31st, 2010

Data visualization is a tool that is applicable in many industries. Some visualizations are made to help business owners make decisions, some to help reporters perform analysis to make discoveries. But what takes a visualization, or interactive piece, from something that helps a news producer, to something that helps a news consumer, requires someone who understands what a user is looking for Read More...