Links
Mentioned in the talk
Tools / technologies mentioned
- D3 javascript, (Observable is a good place to get started with d3)
- SVG Crowbar
- "ArchieML is a structured text format optimized for human writability."
Articles / graphics mentioned
- Data shows how rare severe breakthrough Covid infections are
- Map: Here are the states where pregnant women can get the Covid vaccine now
- After a sexual assault, where can you get a medical and forensic exam?
- Thanksgiving dinner will be served: The pandemic didn't dent the U.S. turkey supply
- Agriculture census finds that llamas are disappearing. What happened?
- MAP: Here's where Christmas trees in the U.S. grow
- Map: See how the wildfires across the Western U.S. compare to where you live
- These charts show the spread of Mariah Carey's classic Christmas song
- 6 states account for more than half of the country’s recent Covid hospitalizations
- There's a plan afoot to replace the Electoral College, and your state may already be part of it
- Fauci expects most states to reach peak omicron by February. Close to half already have.
Not mentioned but useful
- This once a week email newsletter is how I stay on top of technical web topics
- The News Nerdery slack is a great place to find out about what people in the more technical side of journalism are thinking and doing
Not mentioned but useful but more advanced
- QGIS open-source mapping tool (a video on getting started with QGIS)
- Pandas, a data analysis tool in the python programming language (our team often uses pandas in a jupyter notebook)
Self-promotional links
- Datasets we've cleaned
- https://github.com/nbcnews/data-data-data
- NBC News Data / Graphics internship
- https://gist.github.com/freejoe76/569d08fd4f41da646cec06883a4d559c
- My twitter
- https://twitter.com/JoeMurph
- NBC News Graphics on twitter
- https://twitter.com/NBCNewsGraphics