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 ...

A video demo of the data extraction process for this experiment. I convert a ton of text documents like PDFs to spreadsheets. It’s tedious and expensive work. So every time a new iteration of AI ...

The secret weapon wielded by the Enterprise Visuals team at the Wall Street Journal is collaboration. A lot of it. For our latest project, which dissects the rhyme schemes of the hit musical Hamilton, ...

Picture this: you’re sitting in a car, and the car next to you starts to pull forward. For a moment you feel like you’re moving backwards. That brief feeling of disorientation, where the world is ...

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A few months ago, I wrote in SOURCE about learning to work with development teams and software vendors as a new news product manager. My next step at the time: taking an introduction to web ...

We see a moment coming when the collection of endless streams of data is commonplace. As this transition accelerates it is becoming increasingly apparent that our existing toolset for dealing with ...

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 ...

Journalism funders: Looking for concrete ways you can uphold diversity and inclusivity values during COVID-19? Jenny Choi, managing director at the News Integrity Initiative has you covered. In ...

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 ...