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• mozfest , Events | Oct 26, 2014

  MozFest 2014: Gotta lotta analog data? Crowdsourcing may make it useful for you and fun for readers

  by Mallory Busch

  When we think of data, we almost always think of computers. But when it comes to data that was created before the digital area —  handwritten notes, ancient maps or printed documents, for example — nothing beats human eyes to quantify and verify. And when many human eyes are needed, journalists have the option to crowdsource their data. At MozFest this weekend, Mike Tigas of ProPublica and Jeremy B. Merrill of The New York Times...

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• Ideas , Apps & projects | Mar 18, 2014

  Preserving interactive news projects with Newseum, OpenNews and Pop Up Archive

  by Tyler Fisher

  Photo by Ted Han during the #apparchive designathon at Newseum with OpenNews and Pop Up Archive On Sunday, March 2, Knight-Mozilla OpenNews, the Newseum and Pop Up Archive hosted a one-day conference focused on solving a fairly new problem: How to preserve the new breed of complex interactive projects that are becoming more prevalent in news. While print newspapers are relatively well-preserved, we as an industry do a poor job of preserving interactive databases and...

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• Profiles , People | Jul 22, 2013

  Sisi Wei on news games, learning to code, and improving Code with Me

  by Jessica Soberman

  The Lab’s profiles are Q&As with smart people who are shaping the future of media. Follow the series. As a journalist who is about to graduate, I find easy inspiration in Sisi Wei.  She’s a recent Northwestern grad (class of 2011), which is where I’m studying. More importantly she’s already had a big impact in journalism. She's a news application developer at ProPublica and a co-founder of Code with me, taking on the role of...

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