Once Upon a Datum: Mapmaking on News Time

In September, I shared how WNYC makes news maps during a talk at the the Online News Association conference.

UPDATE: ONA posted a video of this presentation, which I've embedded here:

'Once Upon a Datum': Telling Visual Stories from Online News Association on Vimeo.

Here are my presentation slides (PDF), and here's a list of links to pages and sites I discussed in my talk:

Same-Sex Couples in NYC: http://www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2011/jul/14/census-shows-rising-number-gay-couples-and-dominicans/

Hispanic Origins in NYC: http://www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2011/jul/14/census-shows-rising-number-gay-couples-and-dominicans/

The New Littles: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/clusters/2011/jun/02/june-guest-andrew-beveridge-and-new-littles/

Marijuana Arrests: http://www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2011/apr/27/alleged-illegal-searches/

Contributions by Zip Code: http://empire.wnyc.org/2011/07/where-are-the-mayoral-candidates-raising-their-money/

Dollars in a District: http://empire.wnyc.org/2011/09/the-54th-assembly-campaign-contribution-breakdown-where-have-all-the-in-district-donors-gone/

NYC Hurricane Evacuation Map: http://wny.cc/EvacZones

NYC DataMine: http://www.nyc.gov/html/datamine/html/data/geographic.shtml

Shpescape: http://www.shpescape.com/

Hurricane Zones Fusion Table: http://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?dsrcid=964884

Fusion Tables Layer Builder: http://j.mp/FusionBuilder or http://gmaps-samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/fusiontables/fusiontableslayer_builder.html

Layer-wizard map from presentation: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/466610/preso-map.html