dataist: Interactive: The 100 richest people in Finland
Friday, 2 December 2011, 12:19
Jens Finnäs: “Every year in the beginning of [November] the [Finnish] tax records from last year are published. In other words: you get to know who made the most money. Every year the Finnish media outlets do a very conventional presentation of this m…
@innovations: Washington Post on news innovation, Moving away from Flash: A look at JavaScript drawing libraries
Friday, 3 June 2011, 10:06
"Last week we published a graphic that compared four federal budget proposals through a series of charts. We used the jQuery library Flot to draw simple, interactive line charts that showed how the debt and deficit would change under the different…
New York Times: Patterns of Speech: 75 Years of the State of the Union Addresses
Wednesday, 26 January 2011, 11:39
Very nice graphic charting key words and phrases used in Presidential State of the Union addresses since 1934. Technically clever too. All Javascript and Raphaël. Not a Flash file in sight.
10,000 Words: How they did it: The New York Times’ budget interactive
Tuesday, 16 November 2010, 15:09
"During the design process … [graphics editor Kevin Quealy] said he had to strike a balance between the interactive being too simple (and boring) and being too complex (and game-like, for something that’s a serious topic). … To facilitate the sharing of a user’s results, a variable called “choices” is appended to the URL. This variable tells the Javascript which tax cuts and spending increases to display. A user then has the option to post the results to Twitter, by interacting with the service’s Tweet Button, which Quealy noted is partially why the interactive is so popular on Twitter."
Charles Arthur: If I had one piece of advice to a journalist starting out now, it would be: learn to code
Monday, 19 January 2009, 09:11
"[If] you’re doing one of those courses where they’re making you learn shorthand and so on, take some time to learn to code. … I mean it in the sense of having a nodding acquaintance with methods of programming, and perhaps a few languages, so that when something comes along where you’ll need, say, to transform data from one form to another, you can. Or where you need to make your own life easier by automating some process or other."
Sunday, 10 June 2007, 20:36
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"Recently, I argued that some journalists should learn how to program. Here’s a practical example why."
