Nearly all maps are an attempt to represent our environment (generally Earth) in a two-dimensional format. The act of systematically transposing a 3D to a 2D object is called projection, and it’s a ...

If you’ve worked in a technical role in news for long enough, you likely remember when the “show your work” spirit was everywhere. Newsroom nerds shared code on GitHub, swapped tips on social media ...

Back in May of this year, I set myself a challenge: I wanted to try as many applications and libraries and programming languages in the field of data visualization as possible. To compare these tools ...

Here are the results of the 2022 News Nerd Survey, which offer a snapshot of our community and hopes to understand its needs. We are thankful for the responses. This survey follows the previous ones ...

About this series: Exit interviews are a way for organizations to seek honest critique. This occasional series offers feedback for journalism as an industry, through observations from news nerds who ...

Source is an OpenNews project designed to amplify the impact of journalism code and the community of developers, designers, journalists, and editors who make it.

(We use this XML intermediate representation for historical reasons. Replacing it with something more efficient is on our to-do list.) At this point, we have a collection of single characters and ...

Intro to Part Two of Snow Fall (New York Times) The New York Times’ astonishing Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek, launched in the final days of 2012, capped a year of extraordinary work in ...

If you’re like me, your personal geography of your city is based mostly on its streets, but you’ve never really given their names a second thought. A few months ago, I realized that those street names ...

Editor’s note: This article is published in collaboration with MuckRock. You may also be interested in their 2023 review of OCR tools! Extracting tabular data from documents presents a persistent ...

In my role as DBEI Director at Investigative Reporters & Editors, white members and partners earnestly and frequently ask me how they can better engage with people of color, usually because they want ...

Wildfires have been at the forefront of our newsroom’s mind this year, as they have been for pretty much any California news outlet. In October, we opened up an audience survey about our wildfire ...