Launching with two new Django applications ready made to make California campaign finance data easier to access.

POV’s Brian Chirls on why video sync is a giant pain and how to make it work.

Web journalism lovers descend on Chicago this year for the Online News Association annual conference.

Jake Harris reverse-engineers Twee-Q to evaluate its use of data (and see if his ratio is as disappointing as Twee-Q says it is)

Hacks/Hackers meeting up in Europe, and geography nerds in Portland, OR this week.

Basile Simon walks through the process of building a new tool that aims to help reporters cover beats, and that was prompted by work by Knight-Mozilla Fellows and a presentation at Hacks/Hackers London.

Robert Gebeloff’s primer on working microdata magic

Meetups this week and hackathons in Buenos Aires and São Paulo.

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.