The Texas Tribune: Making Data, and State Politics, Public
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Claims measurable: a production newsroom builds and maintains interactive data explorers that standardize messy agency releases, ingest more than 300 thousand public employees records, and deliver repeat traffic via the Government Salaries Explorer. Implementation details include Django-based back ends, GeoDjango and PostGIS for geography, a node static pipeline using nunchucks templates, and WhiteNoise/Heroku for short-lived hosting. Projects ship with import scripts, validation, public GitHub repos, and ongoing updating so the apps actually stay live.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 7:27Why Django for news apps
- 16:27Balancing Django with tools
- 23:39Django in newsroom workflows
- 27:17Disappearing Rio Grande case study
- 30:51Texas Legislative Guide case study
- 34:51Government Salaries Explorer evolution
- 37:25Q&A
