I had the honor of presenting at four sessions at the Computer Assisted Reporting conference this week. For those who attended, here are the links I referenced in each session.
If you weren't in St. Louis for the conference, you can still get a sense of what's here. If you see something you want to know more about, let me know. For everyone else's presentations, check out this great list.
Election Night Results & Maps
- States that have (or have had) live election data
- Miami Herald embeds WNYC's Florida map
- Patchwork Nation and their county tables
- WNYC's election-day ballot reporting, via SMS texting
Ins and Outs of APIs
- WNYC's It's A Free Country site
- Story with donut dataviz
- Highcharts.com
- BotOrNot.net
- Topsy.com and the Topsy API
- My last 100 tweeted links
Election Data Without a Database
- See my post on Making AP Data Easy with Fusion Tables
Apps Without a Backend CMS (using Google Spreadsheets instead)
- Tabletop.js
- Rutgers Bullying Timeline Spreadsheet and Story
Hacking the Census - How we made a Fusion Tables census map
- Story: Can Brooklyn’s historical black Congressional district survive?
- Map itself
- The Data: census.ire.org
- The Shapes: Census download page
- Shapefiles to Fusion: shpescape.com
- Tract shapes Fusion Table
- Population change table
- Population density table
- Congressional districts shape table