Thomas Wilburn - SeattleJS Conference 2017
summary
Seattle Times uses a reusable news app template that turns CSV/JSON/Sheets into static, archived builds deployed to S3 static hosting so features scale without servers or ops. Examples: a WebGL map mixing JSON + JPEG pixels that goes live for the Profanity Peak wolf story (seven wolves killed, four remain) and a geocoding Google Apps Script that fills lat/longs from a sheet. Sheets are first-class data sources; cron rebuilds every two minutes power live-feeling election pages and survive outages.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and role
- 4:59Newsroom challenges and goals
- 6:00News app template and tooling
- 12:01Spreadsheet-first development
- 17:40Journalism and the web
- 20:48Ethical responsibility to the web
- 23:36Closing and resources
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