Date: Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 2:45 PM
Subject: [open-twin-cities] Star Tribune's Data Drop
To: twin-cities-brigade <<email obscured>>
I thought some of you might be interested in hearing about the Star
Tribune's new weekly feature on our website that aims to point out
interesting things that we find in data. Plus, I’d love to hear any
suggestions you might have for future pieces (either now or anytime in
the future).
We’re calling this “Data Drop” and it will be published online each
week (sometime between Tuesday and Thursday) and then some version of
it will be converted for print publication in the following Sunday
paper. Our editor wants it to be fairly “populist” in terms of topics,
but we pretty much have a wide-open canvas to work on. Because of our
deadline and resource constraints, these will have to be relatively
simple and straightforward. All of them will have some sort of
visualization – most likely at least a little bit interactive.
All of the pieces will be housed on this section page:
http://www.startribune.com/local/datadrop/
You’ll see that we published one this morning using some climate data
and the first one went out last week about Internet access in
Minneapolis. We may occasionally publish more than one in a week,
especially if there's something timely or breaking in the news.
(You’ll also see that this web page has data visualizations that we’ve
published with stories over the past year – that was our way of
filling up this page!)
Feel free to pass this along to any of your colleagues or others you
might know who are fellow data geeks and might like to pitch me an
idea. There is a ton of great data out there and probably my biggest
challenge is wading through it and finding the best stuff.
thanks,