At the ASNE Hacking News
Leadership conference this weekend, editors and data gurus from across
the United States showed off tools and shared suggestions, tips and
stories. Here’s some
cool stuff:
1. Tableau
– for maps, interactive charts and dashboards. If you’re an IRE member you can
get an inexpensive desktop license. www.tableausoftware.com/
Mark Collette from the Caller Times used it for this project – www.caller.com/immigration
2.
Storify – is a cool tool to make stories out of visual
elements; using /slideshow allows them to be converted into a slideshow https://storify.com/
3.
Mapbox,
Tilemill were among the tools the
Washington Post used to create this super zip code map – of wealthy and
well-educated Americans wapo.st/super-zip
4.
The Texas
Tribune’s Ethics Explorer used a common spreadsheet in Google docs as
the main reporting tool – everyone dumped data there And it was the basis
of their series Bidness as Usual. http://trib.it/lawmakerexplorer
5.
Google fusion
tables lets you build maps and
relationship tables too, like this one from Express News reporter Jason
Buch on connections between alleged moneylaunderers - https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?snapid=S457047pVkn.
Free
6.
Document Cloud lets you share documents between reporters and
highlight them for readers too – here’s a example http://www.johntedesco.net/blog/tag/san-antonio/
- just set up a log on and start experimenting. Free..
7.
Tabula is a free tool for converting pdfs to spreadsheets. It
has a built-in function that allows you to define information on several pages and
export many pages of data all at once. Very cool
Timeline: A new free timeline tool timeline.knightlab.com/
Timeline: A new free timeline tool timeline.knightlab.com/
9. Make quick videos with the Videolicious i-phone app: https://videolicious.com/
Try making Story maps:storymap.knightlab.com; storymaps.arcgis.com
T The Firetracker app used for California wildfires is an app built by reporters and programmers at LA public radio station KPCC http://projects.scpr.org/firetracker/colby-fire/ If you're interested in app and web designs/prototypes? Check out InVision: Free Web & Mobile Prototyping and UI Mockup Tool www.invisionapp.com/ or Marvel: Free mobile and web prototyping for designers https://marvelapp.com/
T The Firetracker app used for California wildfires is an app built by reporters and programmers at LA public radio station KPCC http://projects.scpr.org/firetracker/colby-fire/ If you're interested in app and web designs/prototypes? Check out InVision: Free Web & Mobile Prototyping and UI Mockup Tool www.invisionapp.com/ or Marvel: Free mobile and web prototyping for designers https://marvelapp.com/