Schedule
7:30 - AmyJo Brown will present on how programming is used in journalism.
8:00 - Andrew McGill will present on multiple projects from the Post Gazette's DataBurgh initiative
1. Where's Bill (web scraping with PHP/Python, SQL, some visualization stuff)
2. Some of the mapping projects (GIS, Mapbox)
3. Visualizing fracking with D3
4. PSSA scores and how your school stacks up (SQL, Bootstrap framework)
More about the speakers:
AmyJo Brown is an independent journalist, passionate about public records and mining data.
Andrew McGill is a print and media journalist with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, where he writes data-driven stories and designs interactive web applications to tell a story.
July 3, 2014
Lovely job with the video and editing! Thank you. (And now I'm off to work on my "UMs.") ;)
July 23, 2014
I believe Andrew McGill mentioned an upcoming meetup of OpenPGH that would be dedicated to working on one of their projects. Does anyone know the date/time/location of this? I can't seem to find any information on it.
July 18, 2014
I'll share one more link. If last night sounded interesting and you want to explore the idea of working in a newsroom, read this. https://medium.com/@jeremybowers/why-im-a-newsroom-coder-860d9d49f684 and this: https://source.opennews.org/en-US/articles/planting-next-crop-newsroom-coders/ and consider applying for this fellowship: http://opennews.org/fellowships/apply.html
1 · July 17, 2014
Another interesting article on data journalism: https://source.opennews.org/en-US/learning/true-facts-maybe/
I was pleased that a lot of what was discussed last night addressed these kinds of issues: transparency, providing original sources, notes on cleanup and interpretation, versioning, etc.
1 · July 17, 2014
Related to campaign finance, the Center for Responsive Politics also has an interesting op-ed in today's NYT about campaign data at the federal level: http://www.nytimes.co...
1 · July 17, 2014
Fantastic pair of presentations on programming in journalism for the purpose of finding, cleaning, and presenting data. Thank you, AmyJo (and Katrina) and Andrew, for sharing what you do and how you do it!
July 16, 2014
There's a group of us going to dinner around 5:30. We don't know yet where we're doing, but I'll reply to this comment with where we're going when we decide. Meet in the third floor lobby area, I guess? That way, people can drop off their stuff.
July 16, 2014
Alberto Cairo just posted a provocative article on data journalism: http://www.niemanlab.org/2014/07/alberto-cairo-data-journalism-needs-to-up-its-own-standards/
Any comments?
July 10, 2014
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