feb
09
2012
NPR GOP Delegate Tracker
Looking at GOP delegate trackers from different news organizations, you might notice that they often have different numbers. There are a lot of factors to consider, including whether to factor in projections / estimates, how to interpret state / party …
feb
01
2012
Year-End Campaign Finance Reports
Yesterday, in addition to being the date of the Florida GOP primary, also was a major Federal Election Commission deadline for candidates and political action committees to submit their year-end financial disclosures. Candidates had last filed at the end of …
jan
25
2012
The Markup: Notes On The State Of The Union | NPR
“President Obama has laid out his vision for the nation. We marked up his speech with fact checking, analysis and reaction — all in the margin.” I worked with Erica Ryan to set up this page within our CMS, tweaking the CSS to narrow the main content column and kick the annotations into the new left margin.
jan
08
2012
Photo of the Day: Election Planning
From last week: Some quick scribbles in my notebook for ways to internally promote different election-related features on our story and blog pages. Lots of pieces to the Elections puzzle.
dec
15
2011
Long-Term Unemployment: How Do You Compare? | NPR
We’re running a series about the long-term unemployed and underemployed this week, based on an NPR / Kaiser Family Foundation poll. Today, we rolled out an interactive that allows users to compare themselves against poll respondents on certain questions. On the geeky tech side, I put this together entirely with HTML/CSS/jQuery (look, Ma, no Flash!). Took a little longer than Flash would have, but it was a good learning exercise. (Just forgive my horrible jumble of code.)
dec
09
2011
What Countries Are Doing To Tackle Climate Change | NPR
“Many top emitters have set their own goals, but it’s not always clear how they can meet them.” Worked with Andrew Prince on this chart, which accompanies our coverage of the U.N. climate summit in South Africa. Nothing particularly challenging technically about how this one’s set up — just HTML / CSS — but I was happy with how it came out.
dec
07
2011
Can Eurozone Countries Actually Follow Their Own Rules This Time? | Planet Money | NPR
“When the euro was set up in the late 1990s, the Stability and Growth Pact clearly spelled out limits for deficits and debt. But nearly everyone broke those rules, including France and Germany. Now that European leaders are trying to create new rules, the question is — how will they enforce them?” Simple HTML tables, with tabs to flip between. I think Jess Jiang’s shading idea worked really well.
How Twitter's Trending Algorithm Picks Its Topics | NPR
Laura Sydell reports, “Sometimes a topic that seems hot, like Occupy Wall Street, doesn’t appear on trending lists, leading some activists to accuse Twitter of censorship. But the secret algorithmic formula prefers stories of the moment to enduring hashtags, so it ignores topics that are popular over a long period of time.” I worked on the chart that accompanies this story. Flot graphing library for jQuery again.
dec
02
2011
Looking At Unemployment By Age, Education And Duration | Planet Money | NPR
Caitlin Kenney reports, “Unemployment has reached its lowest level since March of 2009, according to this morning’s jobs report.” More fun with Flot jQuery charts.
nov
23
2011
Chompsgiving to Chew Year's: Holiday Dishes | NPR
“What would the holidays be without our favorite foods? For this year’s festivities — from Thanksgiving to New Year’s — NPR will feature some unique holiday dishes, recipes that are significant to our reporters’ and listeners’ families and regions.”
nov
22
2011
Map: Hybrid And Electric Sales Across The Country | NPR
“Hybrids and electrics account for less than 3 percent of all cars sold in the U.S. this year, but that ratio is higher in some areas. The San Francisco Bay Area leads the nation with 8.4 percent of all cars sold and the rest of the top 10 markets are also on the West Coast.” I worked on this TileMill-based interactive map of hybrid and electric auto sales in the U.S., based on data from Edmunds.com and R.L. Polk and Co. This goes with an NPR series on fuel economy, “Getting to 55 MPG.”
nov
17
2011
Supercommittee Scenarios: How The Debt End Game May Play Out | NPR
“The congressional supercommittee — charged with developing a plan for cutting the nation’s deficits by $1.2 trillion over 10 years — is days away from its Thanksgiving deadline. While no one can predict exactly what will happen between now and the committee’s deadline, here are some possible outcomes.” I worked on this interactive flowchart with Marilyn Geewax, Avie Schneider and Debra Rosenberg. The graphic is completely code-based, with each element styled / placed via CSS and longer descriptions appearing onmouseover via jQuery.
nov
04
2011
32 Ways Of Looking At Unemployment, In One Chart | Planet Money | NPR
“The chart below allows you to explore these differences in detail. You can see how the unemployment rate has changed over time for people of all ages and all levels of educational attainment.” Produced using Flot, a jQuery charting library. Reusing something I set up for previous projects.
nov
03
2011
Generation Gap: How Age Shapes Political Outlook | NPR
Findings from a new Pew Research Center report. “A new survey from the Pew Research Center finds wide gaps in how different generations view politics. Older voters are more conservative, more angry at the government and less hopeful about the future of the country. Younger voters lean left, wish the government played a greater role in their lives and believe the nation’s best days are yet to come.”
nov
02
2011
Map: Population Density, Global Fertility, And GDP | NPR
“To sustain themselves, many nations adopt policies to raise, lower, or maintain their population levels. And while a country’s gross domestic product may often predict its stance, that’s not always the case.” This Flash-based interactive map was produced for our series this week “7 Billion And Counting.”
oct
17
2011
Interactive: 2012 Campaign Cash, Week By Week | NPR
“The latest batch of campaign finance reports adds a little clarity to the presidential race. For starters, President Obama’s campaign reported a hefty $61 million on hand as of Sept. 30. But in the Republican primary race, things are in flux.” Interactive graph of third quarter fundraising numbers, produced using the Flot graphing library for jQuery.
oct
11
2011
2012 Letterpress Calendar
January 2012 is done! After last week’s pressure print experiment, I sent my Illustrator design off to Boxcar Press to be converted into a photopolymer plate for printing. The printing session itself went incredibly smoothly, and I was able to …
oct
10
2011
Casa Hurtsapong
I meant to post this back in July. For letterpress happy hour one week at Pyramid Atlantic, I typeset / printed a small set of personal notecards. “Casa Hurtsapong” (a portmanteau Rob and I came up with years ago as …
oct
03
2011
The Best Of World Cafe | NPR
“After 20 years behind the mic, World Cafe host David Dye recounts his 20 favorite interviews and studio sessions, including visits from Adele, Sonny Rollins and Coldplay.” Uses a variation of the template we built for the 50 Great Voices project.
sep
27
2011
How Psychology Solved A WWII Shipwreck Mystery | NPR
“In November 1941, two warships from Australia and Germany clashed off the coast of Western Australia. Both sank. Despite extensive search efforts during and after World War II, the ships weren’t found until 2008, after a team of psychologists analyzed the statements given by the surviving German crew members.” I worked with producer Andrew Prince on this interactive about how the researchers did their analysis.
sep
23
2011
NPR on Google TV
NPR now has an HTML5-based channel on Google TV, Google’s set-top box. (It also works in Chrome.) Watch Tiny Desk Concerts, documentary videos and more. I worked with Max Phennighaus, Chris Schetter and Demian Perry; my role was tweaking / adapting some of the CSS.
