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The Candidate: Tutorials and Leveled-Up Music

May

2013

Minor, pre-graduation presentation update including leveled-up music, cross-browser support for music, and the ability to disable tutorials. Changelog 0.3.2 MINOR FIXES Added tutorial for Voter Groups to Week 3 of June. June is becoming the tutorial week Added option to disable tutorials at the start of the game Added OGG sound files for cross browser ...

The Candidate: Version 0.3.1

May

2013

Changelog 0.3.1 MINOR FIXES Added numbers to money and overall voter support bars for more clarity BUGS AND FIXES Added Campaign Manager Portraits to Victory/Defeat Screen Fixed missing options for several challenges Fixed overlapping text and broken option for Blue Cross/Blue Shield Challenge Added missing journalist name in certain challenges Fixed missing portraits for Challenges ...

The Candidate ALPHA is Live!

May

2013

It’s with great pleasure and relief that I can finally present to the world the project that has obsessed me for almost six months now: The Candidate. What is The Candidate? The Candidate is a news game where you play the role of a congressional candidate who is seeking office in a district where there ...

J-Schools, Invest in CAR

May

2013

Originally posted on the Online News Association website. With less than two months to go until I graduate from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, I’ve been looking back at my experience over the past two years. I’m among a handful of students at the school who are really interested in data journalism and ...

Taking gaming magic to the next level

May

2013

Originally published on the Online News Association website. I’ve been a gamer since I was three years old, when I got a Commodore 64. The love affair hasn’t diminished. If anything, at the age of 30, I realize how significant an impact the games I’ve played have had on my life. It’s difficult to imagine ...

From code noob to code ninja — take the plunge

Apr

2013

Originally published at ONA. Here, I’ll say it: It is possible for a journalist with zero background in code to become a coder. When you look at a page of code with no understanding of what the characters on the screen stand for, you may go through the following stages: intimidation, frustration, surrender. Programming languages ...

Oakland Shootings 2011: Map with dynamic graphs

Dec

2012

After months of work, Oakland North just published my data app about shootings in Oakland in 2011. I worked on the project with Mihir Zaveri for Oakland North; he researched and wrote an incredible story which focused on youth violence in the city. The app was a fun project to take on. I used the ...

Gimme Props Gets Press!

Nov

2012

Gimme Props was late to the game in terms of ballot measure coverage (published the Friday before Election Day), but we got some cool press nonetheless. All of the UC Berkeley J-School hyperlocals published articles about the project. Berkeleyside, a Berkeley-based online news site, published a post and, most epic of all, the local CBS ...

Gimme Props!: An Interactive Way to Explore Ballot Measures

Nov

2012

This is the final product of months of sweat and blood. This is Gimme Props! This is a project seven students worked on to tell the story of California’s ballot measures in a fun and interactive way. We also wanted an excuse to use pixel graphics From the ABOUT page: “We got the idea for ...

GUARDIAN: Will Your Vote Make a Difference?

Oct

2012

Apparently not mine, but I could have told you that. But that means I can safety throw my support behind a candidate I actually believe in rather than one of two mainstream travesties. This is still another fun interactive by the amazing data team at the UK Guardian though. Enjoy it, and let me know ...