The Nerd Blog
Use Our Nursing Home Inspect Widget on Your Site
We made it easy to search nursing home inspection reports right from your own website.
Why (and How) We Use Creative Commons for Our Stories
ProPublica has made important use of Creative Commons since our launch four and a half years ago.
Anatomy of a News Map
Behind the scenes on our great migration graphic.
Pair Programming Participant #2: Ricardo Brom
The second participant in ProPublica's Pair Programming Project is Ricardo Brom from La Nación in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
New Open Source Project: Daybreak, a Simple Key/Value Database for Ruby
A couple of weeks ago, in an article about the science behind the Message Machine project, we mentioned the custom key-value store we built to store non-relational data. Today, we're open sourcing the library which we're calling Daybreak.
P5 Project Application
Use this form to apply to be a participant in the P5 program.
Pair Programming Participant #1: Julius Troeger
On Monday the first participant in the ProPublica Pair Programming Project started. He is Julius Troeger from Germany.
Election Day Interactives We're Watching
Here's a list of amazing interactive election day projects our colleagues at other organizations have launched.
How ProPublica's Message Machine Reverse Engineers Political Microtargeting
How the message machine works.
Introducing a Free the Files API
Today we're opening a Free The Files API which will offer developers access to markets, stations, committees and filings data from our crowdsourced app
Adventure Awaits: Another ProPublica News Apps Fellowship
Starting later this year, ProPublica is going to be part of the Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Fellowship program. The OpenNews Fellow will work as a member of our news applications team on major journalism projects and will also get to travel the world attending hack days and conferences.
The ProPublica Pair Programming Project
Come code with us! The ProPublica Pair Programming Project -- or P5 -- opens the ProPublica News Apps desk to newsroom coders who want to work on a ProPublica project, or to finish a project of their own, from the ProPublica offices in New York.
Knight Foundation Grant to Support ProPublica's News Applications Desk
We’re very pleased to announce that the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has made a grant to support ProPublica’s news applications desk.
How a Map That Wasn't a Map Became a Map
Why and how we mapped state money for homeowners.
Useful Code Snippets
At ProPublica we sometimes share small, simple snippets of using GitHub "Gists."
Untangling a Web of FEC Data
Our Tangled Web graphic shows the 200 biggest recipients of expenditure money from the five major presidential campaigns (Gingrich, Obama, Paul, Romney and Santorum), as well as from major super PACs, from around the middle of 2011 through February, 2012.
Introducing StateFace
Today we released a font that you can use to include small state map shapes as a design element in a web application. It’s called StateFace.
Some Thoughts on Timelines
Three different approaches to presenting stories over time.
Announcing Simpler Tiles
Today, we're releasing Ruby bindings for Simple Tiles, so you can generate tiles from Ruby.
