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My code-free adventure designing an interactive game

March 13, 2015

Screenshot of Tierra Smith’s interactive newsgame. Click to view larger. By Tierra Smith  As a first-timer to the CAR Conference and someone previously unfamiliar with data journalism, I was feeling pretty overwhelmed by Saturday of NICAR15. I was dropped into a whole new world where everyone was speaking a totally different language. I felt myself…

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Beyond charts, making interactives fun

March 2, 2013

Fun does not equal fluff. Spice up data viz and you can “take a wonky topic and personalize it,” said Tasneem Raja of Mother Jones in the “Making interactives fun” session. Also, fun interactives build your credibility for the hard-nosed investigations down the line. When readers see how you deftly handle dog license data they…

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