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Covering the NATO summit
The Tribune company’s CMS is powerful but monolithic. It makes publishing news for several huge metro areas possible, but it also means that it is hard to build new applications. Lucky for us, the IT...
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School Report Card update
Last week we added crime report data to the Schools Report Card application. The data was obtained from the Illinois State Board of Education via a Freedom of Information Act request by Joel Hood and...
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Talking about crime: The Chicago Crime site
Welcome to what we hope will be an ongoing series of blog posts by members of the apps team about our work analyzing and visualizing data related to public safety and crime. Crime is an important and...
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Announcing the Chicago Crime API
We are happy to announce the first release of the Chicago Tribune’s Chicago Crime API, an easy, fast, useful and rich way to access more than 12 years of Chicago crime data. We’re excited to see what...
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Meet Tarbell
Note: This article was originally published in Source on May 28, 2013. Newsrooms need sturdy, affordable tools to give stories special treatment on a day-to-day basis. If maintenance requirements are...
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Announcing the Tarbell 0.9 preview release
We’ve been hard at work on the next version of our Tarbell project, which makes it easy to build static websites. Tarbell has been through many iterations over the past year. The first open source...
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The Nuts and Bolts of Tribune News Apps Event Listings
A few months ago, we built a reusable Javascript app to provide an interface to a quirky events API. Internal stakeholders needed standalone, searchable event listings, embeddable calendar and...
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Announcing Tarbell 0.9 beta 6
Today we released Tarbell 0.9 Beta 6. (Tarbell is our open-source static site generator based on Google spreadsheets, made with newsrooms in mind. Read more here!) This is our biggest release to date...
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