Methods: Not Cutting Corners
My process in developing Not Cutting Corners involved a series of steps beginning with much data exploration and ending with a cleaned and finished product. […]
Articles by Madeline Bilis
Data Story: Not Cutting Corners
On streets sprinkled with 7-Elevens and Store 24s, the neighborhood corner store lives on. The Story: There are 243 corner stores in Boston. To define […]
Racontr Review
Racontr is an interactive storytelling platform, enabling users to publish “without a line of code”. The developers describe it as “is the combination between an […]
Datawrapper Review
Datawrapper is an open source project by ABZV, a German training institution for newspaper journalists. It’s essentially a tool in which you can create interactive […]
John Snow’s Cholera Map on CartoDB
by Madeline Bilis & Ariana Marini Click the image of the CartoDB map to view the interactive version. We recreated John Snow’s cholera map in […]
Three Data Sets. One Question – Moving Truck Permits
I’m comparing my original Aug/Sept moving truck permit data set with two additional data sets regarding moving truck permits– one from May/June and one from […]
One Data Set. Three Questions – Moving Truck Permits Aug/Sept 2014
September 1st is a day of varying emotions– it’s move-in day, it’s Allston Christmas, and it’s a day you’ll likely receive a parking ticket. I […]
Case Study: Where Does My Money Go?
Madeline Bilis and Ariana Marini “The Daily Bread” is a part of “Where Does My Money Go?”, which is based on OpenSpending. Initial observations Keeping […]
The Robin Williams Movie Matrix
I love Mashable and dream of interning with them. Until then, I’ll browse their site and awesome infographics. The Robin Williams Movie Matrix came out a few […]