‘Apps For America’ Shows Innovative Ways to Display Government Data
I interviewed the three winners of the Sunlight Foundation’s “Apps for America” context about how they chose to visualize data made available on the Data.gov website and what news organizations can learn from their work.
‘Apps For America’ Shows Innovative Ways to Display Government Data
The Sunlight Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to greater government openness and transparency via the Internet, recently announced the winners of the “Apps for America 2: The Data.gov Challenge” development contest. There is a lot to learn from the winners: Datamasher, GovPulse and ThisWeKnow.
News organizations have been putting data online for years, but not many of them have been doing it well. (Think data ghettos.) As government agencies and third parties place a high priority on sharing information that’s key to public discourse, news organizations may benefit from observing how they put data online.
Published: September 21, 2009
Publication: Poynter E-Media Tidbits, a Poynter Institute blog about the intersection of news & technology.
Skills: Reporting, Writing
Medium: Text