To introduce ourselves and our skills to the Trib newsroom, Joe and I showed off some news applications we love, and that we hope will inspire the journalists here to think about telling their stories in new ways online.
For the folks who missed the show, here’s a quick rundown of what we talked about. (I [...]
In her TED talk, Unveiling the “Sixth Sense,” game-changing wearable tech, Pattie Maes demos a system that creates interactive visual layers over the real world. The actual implementation, a tiny projector tied to a wearable computer that watches your fingers for input (using colored marker caps to identify fingertips!) is cheap, but not something you’d [...]
As announced on their excellent Open blog, the Times rolled out a neat tool yesterday:
The New York Times Visualization Lab… allows readers to create compelling interactive charts, graphs, maps and other types of graphical presentations from data made available by Times editors. NYTimes.com readers can comment on the visualizations, share them with others in the [...]
As announced on Open, NYT’s open source blog:
The upcoming presidential election has seen record fund-raising by the candidates and a host of new donors. Now we want our users to be able to analyze and reuse some of the data we’ve been looking at while reporting on the campaign.
Read Write Web’s take is on:
One thing [...]
To help create their fantastic piece about Hillary Clinton’s White House schedules, the NYT developed a tool to aid them in analysis of the enormous amount of information that the schedules contained.
Today at the Online News Association conference, Aron Pilhofer, editor of interactive news tech at the NYT, told a session audience that they are [...]
Signal vs. Noise sez:
We stalled launching our Job Board for a while because we felt we had bigger fish to fry. Once we got around to it, we couldn’t believe we had waited so long. It was easy to set up, a great resource for our community, and has generated lots of cash for the [...]
I’ve been on the hunt for quick and dirty ways to show off data: visualization tools that are free, pretty, and easy to embed in a story. Here are my finds so far.
Kick-ass embeddable visualizations
Upload your data set to ManyEyes, and you can turn it into all kinds of neat charts and wacky interactive stuff [...]
From Slashdot:
Adobe systems made an announcement that it has provided technology and information to Google and Yahoo! to help the two search engine rivals index Shockwave Flash (SWF) file formats. …this will provide more relevant search rankings of the millions pieces of flash content.
This is good news
Flash is a terribly popular platform for interactive news, [...]
Amy Gahran did a great write up on the upcoming NYT API over at E-Media Tidbits:
I think it would be great if more news organizations and journalists could learn a different approach to presenting news — one that provides structure to information that supports both conventional storytelling and remixing, analysis, or alternate representations.
JD Lasica’s take [...]
“The WWW world consists of documents, and links.” — Tim Berners-Lee, in alt.hypertext, 1991.
red light district, by SMN
Why do newspapers publish AP articles online? Why not just link to them? David Cohen says “Stop buying Associated Press articles.”
They are called hyperlinks. They are blue. They are useful. Look Ma’ - here’s an AP [...]
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