Q. So, very first thing, ICIJ has said that it will release a batch of data later this spring, but not the entire dataset—could you say a little about that, and about the way you’re timing the ...

With the launching of 538, Vox and the New York Times’ Upshot, it seems like the age of data journalism is finally here, greeted with both acclaim and concern by media critics. But data journalism is ...

Nearly all maps are an attempt to represent our environment (generally Earth) in a two-dimensional format. The act of systematically transposing a 3D to a 2D object is called projection, and it’s a ...

Dots or people—what do you want your readers to think? (Ryan Norton via Flickr.) One of my favorite movies is the classic 1949 thriller “The Third Man.” The story is about a writer who arrives in ...

Back in May of this year, I set myself a challenge: I wanted to try as many applications and libraries and programming languages in the field of data visualization as possible. To compare these tools ...

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At Spirited Media, I coordinated the launch and execution of membership programs for Billy Penn, Denverite and The Incline. We learned a lot, fast, and built a suite of tools to help us measure ...

A video demo of the data extraction process for this experiment. I convert a ton of text documents like PDFs to spreadsheets. It’s tedious and expensive work. So every time a new iteration of AI ...

(We use this XML intermediate representation for historical reasons. Replacing it with something more efficient is on our to-do list.) At this point, we have a collection of single characters and ...

Intro to Part Two of Snow Fall (New York Times) The New York Times’ astonishing Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek, launched in the final days of 2012, capped a year of extraordinary work in ...

The Big Mac index is based on the theory of purchasing-power parity (PPP). It’s a comparison tool for currencies, based on Big Mac prices and exchange rates. It helps to show whether a currency is ...

The Local’s months-long investigation of Toronto’s Vision Zero road-safety program grew out of a plan to analyze speeding in school zones across the city. What we found was significant inequity in the ...