Chris Amico: Journalist » economy http://work.chrisamico.com Highlights of my professional work Fri, 03 Jun 2011 20:31:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Patchwork Nation http://work.chrisamico.com/pbs-newshour/patchwork-nation/ http://work.chrisamico.com/pbs-newshour/patchwork-nation/#comments Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:47:49 +0000 Chris Amico http://work.chrisamico.com/?p=166 Patchwork Nation is a project covering complicated national issues from a local perspective with a lot of data to back it up. It’s a way to talk about tough subjects–politics, the economy, race, religion, culture–in a human way. It’s also a set of tools to find stories in data that might otherwise be missed.

Patchwork Map

Production notes:

This was my first major project for the NewsHour. I built the Django application that feeds data into the map and controls the county and community type pages.

The Flash map was built by an outside vendor, and I created hooks to manage it via Django’s admin interface. The database stores close to a half-million individual statistics covering population, ethnicity, religion and culture.

Blogs are imported from a handful of sources and platforms, including the Christian Science Monitor (WordPress MU), community bloggers (Blogger) and the NewsHour.

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