Two projects I worked on recently for the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting were finalists for SPJ Green Eyeshade Awards for digital media presentation. For “Florida and Foreclosures” and “School of Hard Financial Knocks” I built…
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My awesome wife bought me a Garmin Oregon for Christmas, and I had my first real chance to use it this past weekend in Arizona at the annual data nerd conference. Saturday afternoon my co-consipirators…
The following is the basis of a tutorial I’ll be giving later today of a University of Memphis journalism class on various ways to create Google Maps. 1) Linking to or embedding Google MyMaps is the…
I’m learning to hunt — so what started out as me toolin’ around on the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency website turned into an excuse to make a neat map of public hunting land within striking…
Just a quickie: Some tornadoes touched down in and around greater Memphis today, knocking electric service out for a lot of folks. Damage reports are still coming in. I’m relatively new to the area, so…