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A Game of Thrones
The Project: An interactive graphic which depicts relationships between characters in HBO’s “A Game of Thrones” through a heat map. Click on a character to re-sort the graphic. Compelling...
View ArticleA Fellow’s First Hackathon
Last weekend I attended the PDF Liberation Hackathon at the Sunlight Foundation here in DC. It was a wonderful event, and a great kick-off to my fellowship year in the District. I want to talk about it...
View ArticleMonth One: What I’ve Built
It’s been a month (and three days) since I started my fellowship at The Washington Post. In a word, I’ve spent the month building. In a few more words I’ve been building things, building projects, and...
View ArticleLearning every day
I’ll be writing bi-weekly updates here, as part of my reporting in for our OpenNews community calls. Since my last post, I’ve started a rotation working directly on the Graphics team here at the Post....
View ArticleRapid Response
For the past two weeks I’ve continued my rotation on the Post’s graphics team. Last week, I worked (for a few days) on our newly formed “rapid response” team. Members of the graphics department rotate...
View ArticleOpenVis Conf
I’m on a plane coming home from the OpenVis conference, and I’m flying high (badum chhh) — in all earnestness, it was the best conference I have ever attended. While I could tell you in detail about...
View ArticleLooking Ahead
It’s been a month since my last fellowship check in, and I’ve been up to lots of little things and (I hope) the start of one big one. I wrapped up my formal rotation on the graphics team, about a week...
View ArticleOne Big Thing?
Past Knight Mozilla fellows have worked on a huge range of projects, with a wide range of scopes. Some fellows have focussed more on lots of “little” projects (lasting a few days or weeks, maybe a...
View ArticlePHP, Arduino, and Tcamp, oh my!
A theme of this blog, so far, has been tracking my learning. I set out at the start of the fellowship to learn as much as I could, while still applying my current skills to projects within (or...
View ArticleMy Fellowship So Far
I’ve always been able to say “I’ve spent the majority of my life in school” without really thinking about it. But today, I started to type that out (for a point I’ll eventually make, somewhere down...
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