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Michelle Minkoff

=SUM (Passion + journalism + data + technology)

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...

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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...

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"Alternative Storytelling"

January 11th, 2009

I have a problem.  I'm interested in too much.  After the first week of my second quarter at Medill, I have eight story ideas I'm working on.  To give you some perspective, we are supposed to have 15 done by the end of the quarter. There are 11 weeks in a quarter.  8 times 11 = 88.  88 does not equal 15 Read More...

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