One of the things I try to stress to students in my computer-assisted reporting class at GW each spring is the difference between a story based largely on anecdotes or temporal observation and the same story with the addition of a definitive analysis of data. The LIRR story in today’s Times by Walt Bogdanich, Andy [...]
Some additions to Fumblerooski, as work continues:
Yearly rosters for teams (example). Thanks to the NCAA for this stuff, which goes back to 2000.
Player pages (example). These are a little odd in that they represent a player on a team for a single year, so they have links to other seasons for that player. Again, back [...]
One of my tasks this summer was to learn a bit more about the GIS branch of Django, which is now in trunk as a contrib app thanks to the hard work of Justin Bronn, Travis Pinney and Co. Although there are many folks in the CAR community who are quite proficient at mapping technologies, [...]
Be sure to catch Caspio’s David Milliron’s responses at Mindy’s site.
Mindy asks for some bullet points on why news organizations would do better to not use Caspio for their Web database needs. Feel free to add on:
SEO. If you like building databases that are not indexed by Google and other search engines, then Caspio’s right [...]
For reference purposes, you may want to study this old commercial for Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. Recommended, but not necessary, is this definition.
It’s August, which means that college football is just around the corner. College football is why I don’t volunteer to teach any classes in the fall. It’s why I occasionally compensate my better [...]
