Ryan Mark and I built enviroVOTE to help people visualize the environmental impact of the 2008 elections. We designed it in two evenings and made it real in a three-and-a-half-day long bender of data crunching and code.
This is the story of that time.
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Sunday evening, 26 October: the concept
The idea struck [...]
This post is last in a three-part series on News Mixer — the final project of my masters program for hacker-journalists at the Medill School of Journalism. It’s adapted (more or less verbatim) from my part of our final presentation. Visit our team blog at crunchberry.org to read the story of the project [...]
Tagged agile, Crunchberry, free and open source software, Gazette, Medill, News MixerThis post is second in a three-part series on News Mixer — the final project of my masters program for hacker-journalists at the Medill School of Journalism. It’s adapted (more or less verbatim) from my part of our final presentation. Visit our team blog at crunchberry.org to read the story of the project [...]
Tagged Crunchberry, Facebook Connect, Gazette, identity, jackassery, Medill, News MixerThis post is first in a three-part series on News Mixer — the final project of my masters program for hacker-journalists at the Medill School of Journalism. It’s adapted (more or less verbatim) from my part of our final presentation. Visit our team blog at crunchberry.org to read the story of the project [...]
Tagged Apache, Crunchberry, django, free and open source software, Gazette, LAMP, Linux, Medill, MySQL, News Mixer, PythonThis morning, Ryan Mark and I launched enviroVOTE!
Conceived last Monday, and built in a three-day coding sprint that ended in the wee hours this morning, the site tracks the environmental impact of the elections by comparing winning candidates with environmentally-friendly endorsements.
The numbers
Amy Gahran got the scoop with her E-Media Tidbits post:
The site’s home page features [...]
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