The financial relationship between PAC contributors and recipients can be difficult to divine from the information reported to the FEC. Bedfellows is a new Python library based on a model developed at The Upshot for understanding those relationships via several different measures.

How the Seattle Times’ election page served as a testbed for custom elements in a news app, and what it means for other news apps teams.

Close out 2015 with a local meetup or check out some upcoming deadlines.

D’Vera Cohn on everything you ever wanted to know about marriage data, but were afraid to ask.

How ProPublica and The Lens got the aerial photos they needed to produce Losing Ground.

This week are many Hacks/Hackers holiday parties as well as your last chance to vote for the NICAR 15 T-Shirt.

What INN’s newsroom technology team learned about inter-organizational collaboration while building Power Players, and what they’ll do differently next time.

An open source elections-data URL locator and parser for Clarity Elections results, from the team at OpenElections.

The Election Night API is a set of tools, configurations, and instructions to collect and serve election results on election night, while still providing an off-season service, and focusing on saving resources as much as possible.

Last week, as part of the OpenNews post-election Code Convening, Jenny Ye and Noah Veltman put the finishing touches on Wherewolf, a JavaScript library that lets you run a boundary service in a browser.

Jeremy Merrill and Ken Schwencke explore the fine art of anticipating and catching errors while wrangling the eccentricities of US elections data.

As part of the OpenNews Code Convening held earlier this month, we’re releasing Whippersnapper—an automated screenshot tool to keep a visual history of content on the web. It builds on top of other open source projects to capture and upload screenshots of a web page, giving users creative power to track how the internet visually changes.

Earlier this month, we held our third-ever OpenNews Code Convening, and our first one west of Portland, Oregon. Code Convenings are short events that bring together pairs of developers from news organizations to finish, document, and release open source projects they’ve been chipping away at.

At the beginning of the season, it looked like Dallas Cowboys running back DeMarco Murray might break a record this season. John Hancock explains the interactive the Dallas Morning News put together to track Murray’s progress.

This month, just in time for the election, our team at the Investigative News Network (INN) launched Power Players—a state-by-state exploration of campaign finance and top political donors across the country. Here’s how we used NPR’s App Template to make it work.

Today is the deadline to submit talk ideas to OpenVis Conf and FOSS4G, and later this week a hackathon in Bogotá.

Conferences are happening this week in Missouri and Berlin, plus meetups around the US.

Al Jazeera America’s Michael Keller explains how his team designed and built its first piece of comics journalism.

The new site is responsive, speedy, and fully backed by new tools for journalists. We spoke with the project’s leaders about their experience, the new features, and what they have planned for the future.

Events are happening this weekend in West Virginia, Munich, Córdoba, and of course, London for the Mozilla Festival.