http://ryan-mark.com/2008/11/05/envirovote-is-a-sucess/ Writer, coder, news hacker. Tue, 16 Aug 2011 21:06:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://ryan-mark.com/2008/11/05/envirovote-is-a-sucess/#comment-21   What could news look like? Cool visual tools — contentious.com Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:32:20 +0000 http://ryan-mark.com/?p=93#comment-21 [...] Envirovote: This Medill News21 project tracked the potential enviromental impact of the 2008 elections — in real time, while the elections were happening. Developer Brian Boyer says that building the visual aspects of this site took just a bit of HTML on top of Python/Django. “The coding for the chart graphics took just 10 minutes. Actually, calculating the percent green on the chart is harder than drawing it on screen! The code that creates the numbers took several hours.” More Envirovote info from Boyer and co-developer Ryan Mark. [...] [...] Envirovote: This Medill News21 project tracked the potential enviromental impact of the 2008 elections — in real time, while the elections were happening. Developer Brian Boyer says that building the visual aspects of this site took just a bit of HTML on top of Python/Django. “The coding for the chart graphics took just 10 minutes. Actually, calculating the percent green on the chart is harder than drawing it on screen! The code that creates the numbers took several hours.” More Envirovote info from Boyer and co-developer Ryan Mark. [...]

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