Interactives and News Apps

Wow. Just days after finding out that “Parachuted In” is a finalist for a Deadline Club Award, I learn that it also won a 2017 National Headliner Award.

Just discovered today that a journalism game I helped create for The Hechinger Report this past summer is a finalist for a Deadline Club Award for Digital Innovation!

There’s a new Trump tracker in town, but this one is focused on the push and pull between Washington and the Golden State.

New interactive I built for CalMatters allowing users to discover how many legislators in California are like them based on several criteria, including age, ethnicity, gender and income. The interactive was built with Javascript and Adobe Illustrator (for mapping out points on the map). You can check it out here.

First attempt at developing a news app using Python for EdSource. Specifically, I used Flask and Jinja to build templates that I then transformed into flat files, based on the restrictions on my web server that doesn’t allow dynamic use of Flask.

In EdSource’s third iteration of the Live Blog, we covered the breaking news around the Common Core-aligned Smarter Balanced test results, the first year these tests were administered.

Podium, a Wordpress-integrated template for handling mini-posts within a single Wordpress post.

Second use of the EdSource Live Blog, this time on an actual breaking news event. We covered the release of the May Revised budget for California, focusing on impact and response from stakeholders throughout the state.

First roll out of EdSource Live Blog formatted, an app integrated with Wordpress and using Google Spreadsheets/Forms to gather data.

My Pretty Money tool has gone through several different transformations depending on where it lived. For EdSource, we ultimately decided for a more streamlined version that focused more on the outside money flooding into the race rather than the money the candidate’s themselves were raising. This largely had to do with how much outside money […]