Scoops and Software: How The New York Times Tells Stories With Data | Fast Company Labs

journo-geekery:

Embedded in the heart of the New York Times, Aron Pilhofer runs an experimental news team made up of veteran journalists and top-notch computer scientists. Their job is to tell stories using software, data, and old-fashioned journalistic skills. Here’s how they do it.

In case you’re curious about my team and colleagues. (I’m currently not paying attention to our team’s informal show ‘n tell about new infrastructure tricks.)

There’s this myth that designers aspire to be artists. No — designers aspire to be really great designers.

Paola Antonelli, MoMA’s Senior Curator of Architecture and Design, echoes Bruno Munari at a recent TED salon titled “Design Is Everywhere.”

Antonelli’s most recent book, Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects, based on her MoMA exhibition of the same name, is fantastic. 

(via explore-blog)

Script Junkie | HTML5 Datalists: What They Are They and When to Use Them

journo-geekery:

Autocompletion is a pattern that all Web users are familiar with. When you do a search, your search engine suggests terms. When you type a new e-mail message, your mail client suggest recipients. This functionality, however, has not been available to Web developers without a nontrivial amount of JavaScript. One of the new HTML5 elements, the , brings this autocomplete functionality to the Web natively.

Aaahhh!  (Via HTML5Weekly.)  This has great potential but until it can handle in-word matching and some kind of CSS styling, I’m not sure I want to put this in front of users.

cycleangelo:

PHOTOSET: #RGR VIA @M_DEMARTINO
One of my favorite aspects of social media (Instagram, in particular) is the ability to follow an event - in the moment, from perspectives and through eyes of strangers that you might have never been able to witness previously. 

I followed the #RGR take closely as the Rapha Gentlemen’s Race was underway this past weekend, and truly enjoyed the images by Matt DeMartino. He was kind enough to share them, along with some words. 

“Though I grew up in Northern New Jersey, I had never experienced much of the state by bike, picking up the sport only after moving to Georgia after a brief stint in New York. While the 130 mile ride, replete with gravel and soaring with 10,000 feet of vertical elevation gain, was difficult, testing the gamut of bike handling prowess, mental certitude, and the core of teamwork, I was astounded by the beauty of the landscapes we traveled through.”

You can follow Matt on Instagram here: @m_demartino