Show-and-tell with Sun Sentinel's Dana Williams and Rachel Schallom

We'll forgo our normal weekly hack in favor of a special show-and-tell with Sun Sentinel database editor Dana Williams (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dana-williams/23/238/9b6) and web designer Rachel Schallom (http://www.rachelschallom.com/). They'll discuss their latest projects, including a series on the failures of the Jimmy Ryce law (http://interactive.sun-sentinel.com/jimmy-ryce/) in which they found hundreds of sexual predators were released to reoffend and a story about Sunrise cops luring people into the city with promises of cheap cocaine deals (http://www.sun-sentinel.com/fl-sunrise-cops-money-selling-drugs-1006,0,497004.htmlpage). They'll discuss how the investigative team collaborates to produce projects for the web, and they'll give us the scoop on their series on speeding cops (http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/speeding-cops/) that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

Dana Williams is the assistant database editor at the Sun Sentinel, where she's been since 1999. She previously worked at the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and the Pacific Daily News. Dana earned a bachelor's and a master's in journalism from the University of Missouri, and she's currently pursuing a master's in Computer Science.

Rachel Schallom is a web designer and developer for the Sun Sentinel, where she's been for just over a year. She has a bachelor's and a master's in journalism from the University of Missouri. She's originally from St. Louis, and she's a huge fan of the Cardinals, Tigers, live music, traveling and sweet tea. Reach out to her on Twitter at @rschallom (https://twitter.com/rschallom) and check out her work at rachelschallom.com (http://www.rachelschallom.com/).

We'll also have time to discuss your projects, of course!

Special thanks to FIU SJMC (http://journalism.fiu.edu/) for providing a venue and support for our meetup!