Jessie Opoien Day!
Today we welcome CapTimes reporter Jessie Opoien. Jessie is a terrific political reporter who wrote the two stories we read for last Thursday’s class. She tweets @jessieopie.
Today we welcome CapTimes reporter Jessie Opoien. Jessie is a terrific political reporter who wrote the two stories we read for last Thursday’s class. She tweets @jessieopie.
Welcome to J335! We are going to do a great deal of reporting this semester. Take some time to look around the website, read the syllabus and look at the course schedule. We’ll begin by talking about what news is and by thinking about what your goals are for the semester.
Here are some ASF tools that you might want to familiarize yourself with as we get going this smester.
Timelines | Timetoast | http://www.timetoast.com/ |
Dipity | http://www.dipity.com/ | |
Timeline JS | http://timeline.knightlab.com | |
Tiki-toki | http://www.tiki-toki.com | |
Data Visualization | Google Fusion Tables | http://support.google.com/fusiontables/answer/184641?hl=en&ref_topic=1652595 |
Tableau | http://www.tableausoftware.com/public/gallery | |
Datawrapper | http://datawrapper.de/gallery/ | |
Data Public Data Explorer | http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory | |
Interactive Images | ThingLink | http://www.thinglink.com/ |
Taggstar | http://www.taggstar.com/ | |
Infographics | Visual.ly | http://visual.ly/ |
Infogr.am | http://infogr.am/ | |
Infoactive | https://infoactive.co | |
Maps | ChartsBin | http://chartsbin.com/about/apply |
Google Maps | http://www.google.com/mapmaker | |
Statsilk | http://www.statsilk.com | |
Zee Maps | http://www.zeemaps.com |