The Tech Data Journalism Bootcamp was developed in collaboration with the Center for Civic Media. We invited speakers from Civic and The Boston Globe to create active seminars teaching journalists from The Tech the basics of how to find, analyze, and present a data piece. A hands-on workshop followed the […]
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Parks are awesome, but does your city have enough of them? The Trust for Public Land’s ParkScore(tm) tries to asses this with a simple score out of 100. I’m seeing this kind of “civic index” more and more often. The biggest example I see if WalkScore, which has become omnipresent on […]
I posted the following to the Comparative Media Studies site; the reaction around the Center to Swartz’s suicide is, we all would agree, still too raw for the Monday-after. A collection of articles, essays, testimonials, and other media is available too. The CMS community — in particular several of its […]
From November 30 to December 2 of 2012, the national organization for undocumented “Dreamers” United We DREAM (UWD), held a congress in Kansas City, Missouri in order to determine the next steps for the Dreamer Movement. The event was held at Kansas City’s enormous convention center located in the Downtown […]
Where commuters run over Black children in Detroit. By the Detroit Geographical Expedition and Institute: http://makingmaps.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/bunge_runovermap.jpg This post written together with Chris Schweidler. This Fall, together with DataCenter, we began developing the Civic Maps Toolkit to orient Community-Based Organizations and Grassroots Groups to the opportunities, tools and even limitations of […]