Data Team

Archive

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  Jun 21st, 2024 • Thomas Wilburn
  State of the Art
  Scrollytelling powered by custom observables
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  Dec 19th, 2023 •
  Data Crimes of 2023
  Here are the worst things we did to process education data this year.
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  Oct 23rd, 2023 • Thomas Wilburn
  Scraping Sans Selenium
  Originally presented at SRCCON 2023
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  Sep 26th, 2023 • Kae Petrin
  Showing what's not there
  How to responsibly visualize flawed data — and when to not
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  Aug 14th, 2023 • Nadia Bey
  Building an interactive graphic for teacher salaries
  And why Chalkbeat maintains a code-first visualization toolkit
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  Jun 26th, 2023 • Thomas Wilburn
  Slouching toward Pandas
  Using LET and LAMBDA to raise the spreadsheet skill ceiling
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  Oct 28th, 2022 • Thomas Wilburn
  Scraping ASP-based dashboards at the protocol level
  How to replace Selenium and browser automation with HTTP exchanges
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  Aug 18th, 2022 • Thomas Wilburn
  Updates to the Dailygraphics Rig
  Adding support for Google Docs, CSV files, and a new JavaScript bundler
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  Aug 12th, 2022 • Kaitlyn Radde
  Utilization, iteration, and visualization
  How we collaborate with Chalkbeat bureaus to create more effective, reader-focused graphics
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  May 23rd, 2022 • Kae Petrin
  How we turned an elementary school curriculum challenge into a dataset
  An editorial approach to creating data visuals from text-based reports
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  Mar 14th, 2022 • Thomas Wilburn
  Expressive rendering and UI in Tarot
  Building the domain-specific language for Chalkbeat's social media card generator
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  Feb 18th, 2022 • Kae Petrin
  How we collaborated across teams to create a COVID-19 protocol flowchart
  Applying ArchieML to the dailygraphics rig for mobile-friendly, accessible interactives
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  Feb 7th, 2022 • Thomas Wilburn
  She has the range
  Superior spreadsheet lookups with arrays, named ranges, and filters
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  Jan 28th, 2022 • Kae Petrin
  Out, damned spot
  How to use ImageMagick to reduce OCR errors from redaction