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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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David Carr at Medill

February 22nd, 2010

Today, the New York Times' David Carr came to speak at Medill. I've admired his work for some time, and he was just three floors above me, so I hopped on upstairs. While not directly data-related, he did talk about many topics relevant to the current journalistic climate. If that's not a good enough reason, it's my blog, so we're going on a diversion Read More...

Tags: celebrity gossip, climate, david carr, diversion, doom and gloom, facebook, good enough reason, gossip news, hierarchy, ipad, journalism, journalists, killer app, last time, naysayers, new york times, nyt, platforms, theory, twitter, upstairs, web
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