The Charting Monster that Spawned from the Jaws of Defeat - David Yanofsky
Channel: BocoupLLC
Date: 2016-05-13

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Abstract:

What started as a simple tool to help make line charts faster has turned into a full-fledged platform for graphics that allows more than 90 journalists in a single newsroom to make, edit, and publish charts without the need of specialized skills or hard to learn software. How did such a tool form?

In this talk, David will present Chartbuilder, an open source charting platform he created, that is now maintained by Quartz and has been adopted by many news organizations including NPR, FiveThirtyEight, The Los Angeles Times, and the South China Morning Post. David will walk us through the technical aspects of the tool, the thought process that gave rise to it, and the challenges such tools introduce within their organizations.

About our Speaker:

David Yanofsky is a reporter creating data driven and visual stories for Quartz. He uses the principles of design and the power of development to try to find and tell stories in ways only the internet can allow. A self taught practitioner of Javascript, Processing, Python, and R he previously worked for Bloomberg creating interactive stories for its web sites, television stations, radio broadcasts, and magazines. Prior to Bloomberg he was a freelance graphic designer, screen printer, and book maker.

More about David: http://yanofsky.info/
More about Chartbuilder: https://github.com/Quartz/Chartbuilder