Chris Zubak-Skees chriszs

Style Book

We're currently using the Chicago Manual of Style. It's imperfect, but it's better than the alternatives, so far.

Style Basics & Deviations From the Stylebook

We don't wrap article titles within text in quotes, but we do link to them on first usage
We don't italicize the names of publications in article text
We don't cap "The" in publication titles in article text, but we do in Organization entries
Commas and periods go inside closing quotation marks

OBSOLETE

This entire guide is based on an old version of Homebrew/Node and no longer applies. It was only ever intended to fix a specific error message which has since been fixed. I've kept it here for historical purposes, but it should no longer be used. Homebrew maintainers have fixed things and the options mentioned don't exist and won't work.

I still believe it is better to manually install npm separately since having a generic package manager maintain another package manager is a bad idea, but the instructions below don't explain how to do that.

Fixing npm On Mac OS X for Homebrew Users

Installing node through Homebrew can cause problems with npm for globally installed packages. To fix it quickly, use the solution below. An explanation is also included at the end of this document.

This script for Google Spreadsheets allows you to generate slugs for your data such as might be used for creating unique urls.

Use it like this!

#	A	B	C
1	a	b	slug
2	foo	baz bing	=slugify(A2:B4)
3	bar	BAZ
4	FOO	baz-bing

Storytelling from Space: Tools/Resources

This list of resources is all about acquring and processing aerial imagery. It's generally broken up in three ways: how to go about this in Photoshop/GIMP, using command-line tools, or in GIS software, depending what's most comfortable to you. Often these tools can be used in conjunction with each other.

Acquiring Landsat & MODIS

Web Interface

USGS Earth Explorer - Browser and data access (create a login)
http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/

Landsat archive

	L.tileLayer.fancyCanvas = function(url){
	var layer = L.tileLayer.canvas({async: true});
	layer.setUrl(url);

	var dataSource = function(x, y, z, done){
	var url = layer.getTileUrl({x: x, y: y, z: z});
	d3.xhr(url).responseType('arraybuffer').get(done);
	};
	layer.data = function(fn){
	dataSource = fn;

	# Read CSV of rent stabilized properties and grab BBL from NYC's GeoClient API
	# takes an input CSV file name and output CSV file name as argv
	# first two columns of input csv must be address number and address name
	# hardcoded for manhattan only, will update in the future
	# run script by doing: python geo-client-api-test.py input.csv output.csv

	from sys import argv
	from nyc_geoclient import Geoclient
	import csv
	import json

	# create an account, create an app
	# @see https://apps.twitter.com/

	# retrieve the access tokens
	# @see https://dev.twitter.com/oauth/reference/post/oauth2/token

	# create the file ~/twitter_api
	nano ~/twitter_api
	Authorization: OAuth oauth_consumer_key="XXXXXX", oauth_nonce="11111111", oauth_signature="XXXXXX", oauth_signature_method="HMAC-SHA1", oauth_timestamp="1450728725", oauth_token="99999-XXXXXX", oauth_version="1.0"

	// RFC-822 formatting string for Moment.js.

	let timestamp = 'ddd, DD MMM YYYY hh:mm:ss';

	// Note, the "z" character responsible for setting the three-character timezone for a date in Moment.js is now deprecated.
	// An easy workaround for this is to generate your date/time using the string above, appending the timezone manually.
	//
	// e.g. return `${ timestamp } CST`;
	//
	// Here, "CST" would need to be calculated on your own and would likely be a variable unless timezone is fixed.