Posts

Archive of posts with the tag

  • Lab projects |

    StoryMapJS Beta gets a fresh look, MapBox maps, and a new gigapixel image tool

    by Ryan Graff

    Back in December we released an alpha version of StoryMapJS, our tool to help journalists tell better stories with maps. Since then it’s been adopted by a number of journalists and deployed around the world — helping to tell the stories about boarding school runaways in England and chart the impact of the debt ceiling debate in the U.S. among many others. We have been refining StoryMapJS and rolled out a few bug fixes already,...

    Continue Reading

  • Ideas , Profiles , Apps & projects |

    Behind the dialect map interactive: How an intern created The New York Times' most popular piece of content in 2013

    by Ryan Graff

    NYT's most popular piece of content in 2013 — “How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk” generates a personalized dialect map based upon user responses compared to data from more than 350,000 survey responses collected in 2013. How do you create the most popular piece of content of the year at one of the nation’s most prestigious news outlet? Well, for starters, study or consider careers in politics, law, and philosophy before eventually deciding that...

    Continue Reading

  • Lab projects |

    Introducing the StoryMapJS Alpha, now with an authoring tool

    by Joe Germuska

    Where? is one of the fundamental questions journalists set out to answer, but often, the maps produced to accompany stories feel flat, or are hard to interpret. StoryMapJS is a new Knight Lab tool to help you connect the places of your story into a media-rich narrative. Like its sibling, TimelineJS, StoryMap makes it really easy to illustrate your work with photos, videos, sound, tweets and more. And today it's easier still: a couple of months...

    Continue Reading

  • Ideas |

    Questions and consequences when publishing public data

    by Ryan Graff

    Over the past few months something unusual has happened to public data projects: they’ve made national headlines. For journalists the most well known project was the gun permit holder map the Journal News in White Plains, New York published late last year featuring names and addresses of all registered gun owners in two New York counties. The map was controversial and inspired journalists and journalism pundits to weigh in on the project’s virtues and faults...

    Continue Reading

subscribe via RSS