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...

Bringing data journalism into curricula

March 24th, 2010

As a recently graduated Medillian (yay for entering the "real world, boo for having to leave such a nurturing and wonderful place), I've been thinking a lot about data journalism and my generation.  Why were there so few students at NICAR?  Yes, it costs money to get to a conference, but I'm not even seeing all that many on NICAR-L Read More...