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Things You Made, Oct 25
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onOur regular biweekly roundup.
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How 21 Newsrooms Pooled Funds for Texas Public Data
By Matt Dempsey
Posted onHigh fees for public data are a huge problem. Here’s how 21 newsrooms in Texas banded together to buy one $3,500 voter database.
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Event Roundup, October 22
By Erika Owens
Posted onWe extended the SRCCON:POWER deadline, plus we’ll be in London this week!
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Front-Page Voter Registration: Q&A with the Ithaca Times
By Marshall Hopkins and Lindsay Muscato
Posted onA Q&A with Marshall Hopkins from the Ithaca Times about journalists helping voters overcome hurdles to civic participation.
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Event Roundup, October 15
By Erika Owens
Posted onWe’ve got SRCCON:POWER and MozFest House unconference events coming up, and other events and deadlines.
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Things You Made, Oct 11
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onOur regular biweekly roundup
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Event Roundup, October 8
By Erika Owens
Posted onMozFest, SRCCON:POWER, AI Challenge deadline, so much going on this week.
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The Value of Human Text Analysis: Q&A with Alvin Chang
By Alvin Chang and Lindsay Muscato
Posted onAlvin Chang of Vox talks to Source about analyzing transcripts of the Ford/Kavanaugh hearings and finding what could be measured.
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Things You Made, Sept 28
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onOur regular biweekly roundup
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Event Roundup, September 24
By Erika Owens
Posted onSo many meetups this week!
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You’re Not Really Listening
By Amy L. Kovac-Ashley
Posted onWhat if our old ways of listening, as reporters, are actually barriers to the work we want to do?
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How We Made “Billions of Birds Migrate”
By Brian Jacobs
Posted onNational Geographic’s enormous bird migration interactive and how it came to be.
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Event Roundup, September 17
By Erika Owens
Posted onTextAV is back this week, plus the NICAR19 deadline nears.
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Things You Made, Sept 13
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onOur regular biweekly roundup of news nerd projects and things living in our tabs.
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How We Mapped 1.3m Data Points Using Mapbox
By David Blood and Ændrew Rininsland
Posted onInside our totally complex cartographic endeavor to map broadband.
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Things You Made, Aug 30
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onOur regular biweekly roundup.
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Our Low-Stress Guide to Working Without an Editor
By Casey Miller
Posted onIf you’re working without an editor, it’s important to build your own support system. Here’s a roundup of our best ideas and strategies, based on our SRCCON 2018 session.
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Working Together 101: How Academics & Journalists Can Collaborate
By Laura Laderman and Sinduja Rangarajan
Posted onWhen academics and journalists collaborate, they can combine their skills to tackle complex questions and communicate the answers in ways that can have a huge impact on society.
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How We Built a Database from Thousands of Police Reports
By MaryJo Webster
Posted onHow we built our massive analysis of sexual assault cases in Minnesota, with tools that anyone on our team could use.
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Great Conference Sessions, the SRCCON Way
By Brent Jones
Posted onHow can SRCCON session facilitators make the most of their time with participants, and help everyone get the most out of the conference? I talked with several people who have facilitated sessions about what went well, what surprised them, and what helped people get most engaged.