April 11th, 2008 | by Derek | published in Data, Sports, django
Update: a bug in the search form pointed out by Joe Weiss has been fixed. Thanks, Joe!
I’ve written before about the applicability of database work to sports, particularly local college and professional teams, and there are signs out there that some news organizations are tackling this previously under-served area. With the NFL draft fast approaching, [...]
April 7th, 2008 | by Derek | published in Data, Journalism
There have been a number of job listings lately looking for folks with database and Web skills. Just highlighting a few:
The Tulsa World wants “web programmers” and an Online Database Coordinator.
The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle is seeking a Data Desk Manager to oversee its team of database folks.
AP is looking for a business news data [...]
January 25th, 2008 | by Derek | published in Data, Journalism
So EveryBlock has launched to various reactions around the journalism community. Some of the common threads I hear in the CAR community come from guys like Mark Schaver and Ryan McNeill, who are both impressed with and unsure of this new thing.
It’s important to say that Adrian Holovaty, the founder of EveryBlock, is both a [...]
September 12th, 2007 | by Derek | published in Car Tools, Data
So in response to several commenters on my previous post, I went to caspio.com to see about a free 14-day trial in order to test things out. Then I read the Terms of Service, which contains this sentence: “In addition, you may not access the Service for purposes of monitoring its availability, performance or functionality, [...]
September 7th, 2007 | by Derek | published in Data, Journalism
Updated: Caspio’s David Milliron responds in the comments.
The good news is that there are plenty more databases served up on newspaper Web sites than there used to be. Some papers are organizing entire desks around data. The bad news - and people can disagree on this - is that in some cases, the papers aren’t [...]