May 2013
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April 2013
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Guest Post: Michael Keller from Newsbeast Labs
We released our interactive map templates that use Leaflet.js and CartoDB for all to use. Michael wrote a post about them on the CartoDB blog, reblogged below. Feel free to grab them from GitHub and use them:
cartodb:
As some of you may already know, Newsweek / The Daily Beast has been using CartoDB for some time now, and as such today’s blog post comes from Michael Keller of Newsbeast labs....
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February 2013
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December 2012
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Six Months in Review
NewsBeast Labs is roughly six months old and we’ve had a lot of fun. This tumblr has most of our projects for the past few months but there are a bunch from before our launch. Here’s a rough list of projects we’ve done so far.
Legal Experts Decode the Supreme Court’s Obamacare Ruling - Our very first project! We launched it the day we got DocumentCloud, which was also the morning...
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Google Docs + Miso-Powered Apps: a note on...
Working both collaboratively and efficiently on deadline, needless to say, is important. For our fastest-paced interactives and news apps, we’ve come to use a combination of Google Spreadsheets and Dataset.js from the Miso Project in a way that we’ve come to really quite like. We figured we’d share it with you here.
Essentially, we use a Google Doc as a temporary database for...
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November 2012
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October 2012
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Welcome to NewsBeast Labs
NewsBeast Labs is a new staff blog that chronicles the behind the scenes of creating digital journalism at Newsweek & The Daily Beast. The main writers, for now, include in alphabetical order Senior Data Reporter Michael Keller, Senior Editor of Social Media Brian Ries, Deputy Social Media Editor & Audience Coordinator Sam Schlinkert, and Lead Developer Andrew Sprouse.
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