livingmap presentation @ harvard thesis night

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1. The livingmap a collaborative data-blog tool for map applications www.datablog.io by Gabriel Hase supervised by Dr. Alexander Lex Harvard University Extension School May, 2014 live questions to Twitter #livingmap
2. What is the livingmap? www.datablog.io - creating map visualizations - in collaboration with others - field of data-driven journalism From the abstract: - interpret geocoded datasets
3. www.datablog.io What is livingdocs? - assembly of text, images and other components - inline-editing of all components - used by Swiss online newspapers - start-up that I co-founded 2 years ago - http://www.livingdocs.io
4. www.datablog.io Live Demo
5. www.datablog.io Feature Set - inline editing of text and images - inline layouting of all elements livingdocs: livingmap: - creating interactive (data-driven) web maps - creating data-driven thematic maps - history tracking for both map types - revert/merge functionality for both map types
6. www.datablog.io Technology for the User Interface and map elements for inline editing and layouting for the thematic maps for the interactive maps
7. www.datablog.io Basic Architecture - Maps - MVC - 2-way data-binding - decorator (maps)
8. www.datablog.io Basic Architecture - History - json format - merge simple - revisions prepared
9. www.datablog.io What’s next - livingdocs will be further developed with the goal to become an editor service for news articles and blogs - ideas and development from the livingmap will be integrated into livingdocs as it is further developed.
10. www.datablog.io Some Future Trends - online news editing “I’d rather have a Snow Fall builder than a Snow Fall.” - Kevin Delaney, qz.com in response to last weeks leaked NYT innovation report: livingdocs will aim to be just that.
11. www.datablog.io Some Future Trends - data-driven journalism April 2014 saw 3 new news outlets for data-driven journalism only: (Nate Silver) (NYT) (Ezra Klein) Data-driven journalism is becoming more professional and streamlined.
12. www.datablog.io Some Future Trends - collaboration github widens its range from code-only to documents with all its revision-system power
13. www.datablog.io Thank you for listening! Links: www.datablog.io - thesis demo and document www.livingdocs.io - my start-up’s product @Gabriel_Hase gabriel.hase@gmail.com