How journalists can use Ospriet to capture real-time conversations at conferences, events
While preparing for a SXSWi panel on design research earlier this year, I started thinking…
July 10, 2012
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How journalists can use selectors to harness the power of CSS
Editor's note: This How To assumes a basic understanding of HTML. Along with HTML and…
June 26, 2012
How journalists can use JSON to draw meaning from data
JSON stands for “JavaScript Object Notation,” which makes it sound like an esoteric bit of…
March 12, 2012
How journalists can use open APIs to improve election coverage
Election season is upon us. As the presidential candidates work to garner support and funds,…
January 27, 2012
How journalists can use Google Refine to clean ‘dirty’ data sets
The first attempt at a lead for this post, it turns out, was pretty much…
December 21, 2011
How journalists can use Flot to turn numbers into visual stories
From building apps to backgrounding stories, reporters work with numerical data in all kinds of…
December 15, 2011
How journalists can use Geocommons to create interactive maps
A few months ago, John Keefe wrote a Poynter.org How To about using shapefiles. The…
December 12, 2011
How journalists can use Excel to organize data for stories
Increasingly, reporters are turning to Microsoft Excel -- or similar spreadsheet programs like Apple's Numbers…
December 1, 2011
Tips & tools for journalists who want to learn programming skills
So you want to become a developer, journo-coder or hired geek and you're wondering where…
November 22, 2011
How journalists can use Backbone to create data-driven projects
Single page apps are great solutions for data journalism. By offloading the complexity from backends…
November 14, 2011
6 reasons journalists should ‘show your work’ while learning & creating
In a busy corner of the metajournalism world, a crowd of journalists is assembling what…
October 24, 2011
10 tools that can help data journalists do better work, be more efficient
It's hard to be equally good at all of the tasks that fall under data…
October 10, 2011
5 tips for getting started in data journalism
Data journalist. Computer-assisted reporter. Newsroom developer. Journo-geek. If those of us who work in the…
October 6, 2011
Introduction to open-source GIS tools for journalists
For years, it’s been only the most committed of journonerds who could invest both the…
September 19, 2011
9 reasons to switch from Drupal to WordPress
Here’s an aphorism for journalists embarking on Web projects: The CMS is the message. Yes,…
September 12, 2011
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