Aaron’s work on Source

Projects

1. Databae, Better Bots, and the Automation We Need Right Now
2. Why Mobile Data Visualization Shouldn’t Hurt
3. Rethinking the Building Blocks of a Chronicle Interactive
4. Building on Data Viz for All
5. Package Data Like Software, and the Stories Will Flow Like Wine
6. Introducing the California Civic Data Coalition
7. Let research apps, MVC JavaScript, and APIs work for you

Articles by Aaron

1. 

   Exit Interviews: Aaron Williams

   “There’s a reason why when you think about what a ‘data journalist’ looks like, you don’t think of someone who looks like me.”

   Posted on January 12, 2021

   Part of an occasional series offering feedback for journalism as an industry, through observations from news nerds who have recently left the field and still love it.

2. 

   Five Years in News Nerd Careers (Part II)

   A state-of-the-community roundtable to celebrate Source’s five-year anniversary

   Posted on October 19, 2017

   Marking our five-year anniversary with a community roundtable on what’s changed since we launched—part two.

3. 

   Databae, Better Bots, and the Automation We Need Right Now

   Be smarter about software and share your imperfect code

   Posted on September 12, 2017

   Find practical approaches to creating software to cover democracy, from a SRCCON 2017 session

4. 

   Rethinking the Building Blocks of a Chronicle Interactive

   Designing, mapping, and deploying “The Airbnb Effect”

   Posted on August 11, 2015

   The Airbnb Effect, the San Francisco Chronicle’s follow-up story to a 2014 analysis of Airbnb listings in the city, was the first project the Chronicle’s Interactive desk published. The project tested the limits of the Chronicle’s CMS, and it is now the baseline we’re using for our larger enterprise features. Here’s a look at how it got started.

5. Package Data Like Software, and the Stories Will Flow Like Wine

   A humble suggestion from your friends at the California Civic Data Coalition

   Posted on September 24, 2014

   The California Civic Data Coalition issues a challenge.

6. 

   Introducing the California Civic Data Coalition

   We’re here with two Django applications ready made to make California campaign finance data easier to access

   Posted on September 24, 2014

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

7. 

   Let research apps, MVC JavaScript, and APIs work for you

   The Center for Investigative Reporting team tells how

   Posted on October 14, 2013

   The Center for Investigative Reporting continues their work visualizing Department of Veterans Affairs’ data. Here, they discuss their development process.