An exploration of an easy way to animate paths in SVG maps.

The Chronicle of Higher Education set out to compare net cost of colleges and found an unexpected discrepancy. The team describes the piece they created to help explain the difficulty in comparing net costs.

CSV Fingerprints creator Victor Powell talks about the tool’s inception, inner workings, and potential to help data-slingers in newsrooms finally ditch Excel.

We spoke with the NYT and BuzzFeed about recent data postings prompted by the news from Ferguson, MO.

Jonathan Stray on how to protect yourself, your sources, and your scoop on sensitive stories

Hacks/Hackers meetups around Latin America and your last chance to pitch a session proposal to the Mozilla Festival.

Twitter’s Simon Rogers introduces Reverb and walks through his team’s design and development work with Periscopic.

Journalism conference in DC, Hacks/Hackers meetups around the world, and two scraping events in Latin America.

Jonathan Stray on what every single person in your news org should be doing to secure the newsroom.

Notes from a lively SRCCON discussion on tricks for avoiding error, led by Aurelia Moser and Chris Keller.

It’s a quiet week for journo code events, which makes it the perfect time to work on your Knight-Mozilla Fellowship application.

Ryan Pitts and Sara Schnadt on how to know your users and build just what they need.

SRCCON, the first-ever OpenNews conference, wrapped up last Friday night at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia. As Quartz’s Nikhil Sonnad notes in his wrap-up post, the problem with even the most energetic and inspiring conference is that the motivation found often fades when everyone returns to the daily hustle and sprint. Like Sonnad, we’re confident that the news-code community that showed up in force at SRCCON has the stamina and sustained interest to maintain the momentum that built up in sessions and around the coffee-hacking stations, and we want to help with that as much as possible. We also want to scoop up as much of the energy and intensity and brain-sharing from SRCCON as we can and pour it out into the wider world that couldn’t fit into the physical conference itself.

Live from SRCCON an update you want to know about.

Last December, Colin McDonald pitched an opportunity for The Texas Tribune to partner on an ambitious project–he kayaks, canoes, and walks the Rio Grande’s entire 1,900-mile course, and we create a platform that makes it possible for him and his team to publish their reports on the journey. After a very successful Kickstarter campaign, the Disappearing Rio Grande project was born.

Yup, this Thursday and Friday is the first conference from OpenNews: SRCCON.

Even among the many wonderful World Cup interactives and news apps we saw this year, the NYT’s Spot the Ball was a standout, both in conception and execution. We spoke with the team behind it about the project’s design, world-class Photoshopping, and surprising inspiration.

We are exactly one month away from the August 16th deadline for applying for the 2015 Knight-Mozilla Fellowships, and this is the perfect time for you—the people actively wrangling data, building news apps, and designing interactives in newsrooms—to help chase amazing candidates toward the Fellowship application. We’ve assembled a one-stop shop of your arguments for joining development teams in news organizations, along with some of our former Fellows’ experiences and exhortations to future candidates.

Matt Waite thinks epistemology (and a little fake software) could save journalism—here’s why.

This week news nerds and data lovers descend on Berlin for the Open Knowledge Festival.