As an experiment in mapping, I found Census shape files for the upper and lower legislative boundaries in all 50 states and combined them into one U.S. map. Then, using FiscalNote data, I was able… Read More »Map: State legislature control
When The Washington Post launched a homepage redesign in August 2015, it was the culmination of years of work — not as one large redesign, but as part of an iterative approach that began with the article… Read More »The Tech Landscape of Newspaper Websites
While doing an assessment of FiscalNote’s web technology needs, I discovered a company called BuiltWith, which gathers data on website technology – basically exactly what I needed. The site monitors the internet’s top 2 million… Read More »Web technology assessment: Newspapers vs SaaS
This fall will be my third Online News Association conference as a website contractor. Going into the planning of this conference I offered to additionally design the conference logo. A good logo, I argued, needed… Read More »ONA15 Logo
The skills I built as a journalist are always coming in handy. When the Illinois Alumni Association of Greater Washington D.C. (DC Illini) wanted to build a newsletter program, I volunteered my services for design.… Read More »DC Illini Newsletter
At ONA 14 I gave a presentation on using Highcharts for non-developers and novice developers. In order to make the presentation a little more engaging I developed an online poll which plotted the results in… Read More »Highcharts presentation
For the second year I contracted with the Online News Association on their annual conference site. Working on a conference website presents a challenge because the relevant information changes over the course of several months.… Read More »ONA14
Our 2014 data intern tackled migration flows with U.N. data from 1990 to 2013. The visualization of this would be complex: We had the ability to show the origin of people entering a country and… Read More »World Migrants
Providing a way for the public to relate with Pew Research Center findings is often a priority. For our political typology research, we accomplish this with a quiz. From an earlier version of this quiz,… Read More »Typology Quiz
A major Pew Research Center report classified each respondent into one of eight distinct political groups. The idea behind the study was to show that “the middle” was not a solid group of voters but… Read More »Typology Comparison