Today: Coral Project Hackathon at the Washington Post. Which was…good. I guess it did feel short: We arrived at 9am, but started at maybe 10am and really started working on the projects around 11.30am. And then there was lunch. And then the super nice Coral people offered mini talks which one could visit. So if you got stuck in your project, you were not forced to think through your stuckness, but could get “distracted” by a great talk about data vis or data import or reasons why the Coral Project is awesome for journalists and users. And then there was a tour through the Washington Post newsroom. And…yeah, half an hour later we were supposed to present our projects - and some people had impressive results, but my group didn’t.
One of the best thing, of course, was getting to know new people, and to see Zyma again (we didn’t know that we would be both at this Hackathon! She’s the one who took the photo up there). The day began to get really good around 5pm, when I saw my fellow fellow Martin again and had great discussions with him and first four and then two other people. It was extremely educational. I learned a lot about the perception of race, gender and politics in the US, while first being in a bar where they showed horse races, then eating greek falafel and then being in a bar where they played board games.
Input? 7
Output? 3
Learnings?
People got hired as editors after writing comments.
Tools should consider the process of working with the tool. A good tool makes sure that getting to the end result makes sense at every point of the process.
Questions?
How can one visualise that everything is a loop?