Ryan Mark and I built enviroVOTE to help people visualize the environmental impact of the 2008 elections. We designed it in two evenings and made it real in a three-and-a-half-day long bender of data crunching and code.
This is the story of that time.
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Sunday evening, 26 October: the concept
The idea struck [...]
Rich Gordon’s got programmers but no project:
Between now and when the [next Medill innovation project] starts (Sept. 23), we have to decide what the focus of the project will be. In my experience with previous projects, the key is to come up with an interesting challenge or question for the students to explore.
Right now there [...]
My comrade in arms Ryan Mark sez:
The Sun-Times published the names, salaries and positions of 145,000 Illinois, Cook County, and Chicago employees on their website this weekend. The names and salaries are online in the form of a simple searchable database.
But the data is buried. There’s no way to get to a spreadsheet of [...]
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